To the Editor:
The results of climate change panic hurt the poor, cost trillions, and fail to fix the planet. Climate change is a problem, but it is not the end of the world.
To put it in perspective, if the U.S. went to net zero today (i.e. reduce carbon emissions to zero), and was at net zero for every year to the end of the century, it would ultimately reduce temperature by 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the U.N. climate panel model.
November 16, 2022
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