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We have to tone it down
climate extremes

I applaud The Mercury Information for its glorious protection of the current California hurricanes and the devastation they induced. And wow, what a distinction to the acute drought we have been experiencing the previous few years.

This excessive climate variation is not any accident. Local weather change has wreaked havoc on our state. It impacts the climate by altering the frequency and depth of rainfall. A warming local weather will increase moisture within the air, which causes longer, stronger, and wetter storms.

We have to cease emitting warmth local weather air pollution into the environment. The longer we select to burn fossil fuels, the extra thermal local weather air pollution we put into the environment, which in flip exacerbates local weather disasters and prices.

Our elected leaders should work to scale back emissions, embrace carbon-free power and transportation programs, and defend at-risk communities, not simply right here in California, however throughout the US.

Paula Dantz
Los Altos

With fentanyl, do not
be a “good mum or dad”

Thanks on your perception Johan Jacob (“Dad and mom have an vital function to play within the battle towards fentanyl“, Web page A6, January 11).

Some adults simply throw up their fingers and say “they’re youngsters” when a baby begins messing with medication. These adults are idlers. The result’s usually escalating drug use and in some circumstances dying (or very shut calls).

Dad and mom, get entangled, busy! Being an excellent mum or dad just isn’t good.

Sue Kensil
San Jose

Many in Congress
broke the oath

A big physique of proof has been introduced that elected GOP representatives and senators are ineligible to retain their positions within the Home or Senate.

14th Modification Part 3 of our Structure. revolt or revolt.

There may be ample proof from the January sixth fee and the Mueller report that Donald Trump and his allies within the Home and Senate have certainly engaged in precisely that conduct. They need to be held accountable and faraway from their public positions or barred from ever holding public workplace.

Wilhelmus Wuist
Campbell

Pillar 13 wants reform
for colleges

Re. “California’s Proposition 13 battle is coming into a brand new part“, Web page A6, January 6.

Current discussions of Proposition 13 have utterly ignored its devastating and lasting affect on our colleges, particularly for marginalized college students.

As an immigrant of coloration who attended public highschool, neighborhood school, and lately graduated from UC Berkeley, I can confidently say that my schooling has been negatively impacted by underfunding.

It’s attention-grabbing to see how simply this vice of taxation is accepted and publicized. However we by no means discuss in regards to the monumental burden that Proposition 13 locations on the backs of our college students. Yearly it’s estimated that we lose billions of {dollars} that needs to be going to our public colleges from business properties alone. The most recent legislative repair would cowl as much as $12.5 billion yearly.

Proposition 13 robbed my era of a lot. and lots of extra future Californians will expertise trainer shortages, lacking extracurriculars, and overcrowded school rooms due to Proposition 13. Folks want to think about all of the impacts that Proposition 13 has created for Californians.

Gillian Garachi
San Francisco

CEQA doesn’t stand
reasonably priced housing

In his newest column, Dan Walters falsely claims that California’s Environmental High quality Act blocks reasonably priced housing (“Abuse of environmental legislation to dam housing requires reform of CEQA“, Web page A9, January 8). His argument relies on inflammatory rhetoric somewhat than established reality. He ignores the empirical research of authoritative authorities. Housing workshop, UC Berkeley Regulationand: Affiliation of Environmental Professionals — CEQA’s discovering is not a lot of a barrier to housing.