Climate fear hard to swallow

To the fellow who said he’d eat his sister-in-law’s fruit cake (“Climate denials delusional,” Letters, Feb. 7) if anyone could cite a peer-reviewed scientific article published within the last four years that was inconsistent with his blind faith in global warming: I refer you to the peer-reviewed article “Solar Modulation of Little Ice Age Climate in the Tropical Andes,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 1, 2006, by University of Massachusetts professor P.J. Polisar et al.

The research results show that man is not the culprit in the melting of the Andean glaciers and argues that “climatic change in the Venezuelan Andes is linked to changes in solar activity during the Little Ice Age” and says the data “suggest that solar variability is the primary underlying cause of glacier fluctuations.”

Bon appetit.

Sue Lani W. Madsen

Edwall, Wash.