In response to letters by Christina Powers and Joan Dewell (Feb. 19, Simi Valley Acorn ), Ms. Powers asserts that the jury is still out on increased carbon emissions and its link to humans.

She does this by pointing to a petition signed by 30,000 scientists but neglects to say whether any of the signatories to this petition are actual climate-based scientists.

I would be willing to bet that most, if not all of them, are not and some have direct ties to petrochemical and carbon-based corporations.

Fact is, 97 percent of climatebased scientists agree that there are many lines of independent empirical evidence for global warming, from accelerated ice loss from the Arctic to Antarctica to the inexorable poleward migration of plant and animal species across the globe.

In fact, most climate scientists have moved past if there is global warming to how do we deal with it.Even if one ignores the preponderance of evidence, don’t we, as a society, want to keep the air we breathe and the water we drink safe?

Wouldn’t it make national security sense to free our country from dependence on the oil-rich nations who don’t like us?

This brings me to Joan Deweil and the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party.

As this inherently ignorant movement rails against Obama and his policies, they do not even know that 95 percent of the American people got a tax cut under Obama and that 40 percent of the stimulus bill was tax cuts.

She also falsely states that the healthcare bill would cause us to pay more for less, when the CBO says that the bill would actually save money and help to reduce the federal deficit.

Besides, isn’t paying more and getting less what the insurance companies are doing to us all now? A recent study said that by 2017 more than 40 percent of household income will be spent on healthcare. Is this sustainable?

These folks are upset and they have a right to be, but they are unknowingly focusing their anger in entirely the wrong direction due to their utter ignorance as to how we got here.

Call your senators and Congress people and demand Medicare for all. And avoid the misguided TEA Party.
Dennis McKee
Simi Valley