How else to explain the front-page-feature-sized headline for the Feb. 22nd letter to the editor screaming: "Climate warnings fall on my deaf ears". Even some of the front page headlines regarding the Ukraine invasion have been no bigger!

Rather than printing the letter, it would have been better to politely suggest it be updated with something pertinent from the last 4 decades. Literally, the most recent headline cited in the letter is more than 40 years old. The implication is that we’ve learned nothing in the last 4 decades even though the warmest seven years on record have all been since 2015.

The thoughtful rebuttal by Frank Fiorentino appearing 2 days later included the line “I sincerely hope that my letter gets the same bad heading…” Alas, it was not—to my eye, it appears to be the same font size as the letters are printed, albeit bold.

Why the emphasis for a letter that cannot even cite supporting information that is less than 40 years old unless the editorial staff is all in to deny climate change?