The world should act now to ensure a livable planet

The editorial board piece in the March 20 Cheney Free Press said that we should proceed with caution and open minds when it comes to climate change. That’s good advice if we’re debating how to deal with climate change, but not if we’re still debating cause and effect.

As detailed in the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report, human activities are warming the planet, and the impacts will be dramatic and dramatically unpleasant.

Don’t be fooled by the well-orchestrated, well-funded campaign to cast doubt on the facts. For example, the American Meteorological Society survey that was mentioned in the editor...