Williams climate column filled with misinformation

I am amazed that there is a need to write this letter. The column by Walter Williams entitled, 'Climate Scientists: Dishonest or Afraid?” in the November 21 edition of The Gazette was so full of reactionary, incorrect, and cherry-picked misinformation that I feel like we've taken several huge steps backward. With islands being permanently flooded, arctic glaciers losing hundreds of tons of ice each day, and people in the agriculture industry worldwide having to rethink how and what they grow, it is no longer defendable or even funny to deny that climate change is real, man-made, and demands immediate action.

Not confining his blame to scientists, Mr. Williams also accuses news reporters of spreading this ‘leftist' agenda. Considering this column is only the latest in a long line of offensive and inappropriate spewing by Mr. Williams, isn't time to rid the Insight page of his work?

Matt Brandt

Cedar Rapids