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History foretells future

The Spokesman-Review

All these people who deny the scientific evidence of global warming are very tiresome. If they don’t believe the scientists they should listen to the elders among them who, in their lifetime, have witnessed it.

When I was a child in the 1940s, living on Bainbridge Island, I remember one winter so bad that the harbor froze over and the ferry boats couldn’t land. This prompted a run on the grocery stores for supplies. Heavy snows were common then, but not now. In Seattle, the fogs were so thick you had to feel your way along the buildings to go along the sidewalks.

When I lived in Leavenworth in the Cascades, I saw photographs from the 1920s that showed snow up to the second stories of the buildings.

They can play ostrich all they want, but I believe the evidence I have seen.

Dorothy E. Carter

Spokane

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