Climate change: Carbon initiative won’t work

Re: “Frog lesson must be heeded,” (TNT letter, 6/22).

The writer of this letter correctly compares the gradual effects of global climate change to the proverbial frog in a pot of water. Unfortunately, the two solutions she proposes are completely ineffectual.

Passing initiative 1631 or forcing Puget Sound Energy to change its energy sources will do absolutely nothing to lower the planet’s air temperature. To borrow another metaphor: Our state is a very small drop in a very large bucket.

The grandiose claims stated in I-1631 could only be attainable if Washington state was in its own little bubble. As it is, the initiative’s only certain accomplishment will be to take billions of dollars from consumers.

Reducing global warming can only be achieved over many decades by a globally unified, simultaneous effort. Piecemeal attempts by individual states amounts to nothing more than whistling Dixie.