LETTER TO THE EDITOR: While the planet literally burns

To the editor,
One hundred and thirty years ago, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius predicted that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to global warming.
By the 1960s and ‘70s, many scientists were aware that this was happening and were bringing it to the attention of elected officials. By the 1980s, climate change – to reflect the fact that not only heating, but other changes in climate could and would occur – was a widespread topic of public disco