Re “El Niño offers a glimpse of our coastal future” (Oct. 27): Thank you for Peter Sinclair’s op-ed about El Niño. His explanation of it as a glimpse of our future due to runaway climate change is clear. As he says, we have used our atmosphere as a “sewer” for emissions from burning coal, oil and gas. The result is an assault on our infrastructure that was never designed for such weather extremes.
Our atmosphere will remain a sewer until we stop burning fossil fuels. Clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels, making the transition just a matter of time. But the longer the transition, the worse things will get (and things are getting bad already).
Congress can speed the transition to 100% clean energy. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is now before the Senate. It will speed up permitting of energy projects and transmission lines for all that new, clean energy. Tell your senators you support it.
— Carl Yaeckel, San Diego