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CLIMATE: Use your eyes to see warming's effects

Re: “NW glaciers are healthy, thank you” (letter, 9-17).

It is child’s play for a climate change denier to find a study by one of the tiny minority of scientists in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry in order to support his solipsistic viewpoint.

I find it easier still to look at satellite imagery, which show the ice is disappearing right before our eyes. Rapidly. Everywhere. Period.

This story was originally published September 18, 2015 at 2:33 PM with the headline "CLIMATE: Use your eyes to see warming's effects."

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