Climate change global impact is nothing new

In reply to the Oct. 21 letter by Sydney Pratt, does he think that climate change is something that began just recently? I remember learning in school that we had an ice age that ended with the melting of glaciers that covered this area about 10,000 years ago. That is why we have the Great Lakes, Backbone State Park and the Loess Hills and other areas.

While in Hawaii a few years ago, my wife and I were on Maui at Haleakala National Park. A folder from the park service stated that the landscape of the volcano was shaped by the receding glacier of about 14,000 years ago. That indicates to me that global warming has been going for sometime. And Hawaii is in the tropics.

Also, some of the people with the same agenda some years back were espousing that we were heading for another ice age. Now, of course, we just have climate change.

Ron Augustine

Hiawatha