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Real climate change

I was soooo relieved to read the Nov. 21 letter Not underwater. Evidently, global warming shouldn’t be a concern.

All this time I have worried about the glaciers melting and reports of rising seas around the world.

I worried because when I came to Miami in 1946 I had never seen the beach regularly underwater (and I lived there one summer).

The bike paths I rode as a kid in Matheson Hammock are gone because they are always underwater now and those big pumps now a permanent fixture on the beach are just a tourist attraction.

The seals and bears up by the poles have lost habitat and climate deniers say this is a Chinese hoax.

So what a relief!

Jean Newland,

Miami Lakes

This story was originally published November 23, 2016 at 7:04 PM with the headline "Real climate change."

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