Do you recall the Walt Whitman poem, “There was a child went forth every day”? Whitman recalled the formative experiences of childhood, how the objects we first look upon become part of us.
This letter is in response to Tom Osborne's Sept. 9 column "Opinion: Green Light: Deflection is the New Denial of Climate Change." Dr. Osborne's position is clear, reasonably stated and scientifically backed.
Skip Hellewell apparently learned nothing from the recent destructive storm Hilary, which caused flash flooding and horrendous mudslides that filled people's homes and set rainfall records. He offers a long-debunked rationale that since the storm's effects on Laguna Beach were not as bad as they might have been, one can conclude that climate models cannot predict events decades in the future.