The News’ rather breathless endorsement of the climate change bill was both unwarranted and unwise. While there may be strong agreement among scientists that climate change is occurring, the extent, severity and results of that change are unknowable. Predictions are based on computer models that are just that— someone’s model of reality, not reality itself. Predicting the future has always been a tricky business.

As to the issue of “green” jobs, everyone talks about green jobs and the green economy but nobody can define just what that is and where all those green jobs are going to come from. Blithely attributing job loss from massive government intervention in the economy to “the ongoing evolution of the economy” is simply not credible. The assertion that the majority of the jobs that will be lost are already living on borrowed time is unsupportable.

A balanced program for achieving energy independence and reducing pollution is a worthy goal. A massive government program, hastily cobbled together, lacking a sober analysis of its impacts, is not.

Brian Rose

East Amherst