You tell 'em, Eric

Letter - In a Trance on Global Warming - Letter - NYTimes.com

And so, led by President Bush and those in Congress who clearly do not understand the increasingly dire warnings from the world’s scientific community, who act as if they were living on some planet other than our own, we march in silent assent, like the Light Brigade in the Crimean battle of Balaklava, like the children of Hamelin blindly following the Pied Piper, like people under a spell, into the rising and rapidly warming waters of the sea.

Eric Chivian
Boston, June 12, 2008

The writer is the director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.