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Hurricane Helene shows
climate change’s fury

Re: “Hurricanes like Helene are deadly and keep killing for years to come”  (Page A2, Oct. 3).

Reading about the devastation in the Southeast, watching the death toll rise daily, is dismaying enough. But now we’re told that may just be the tip of the iceberg: The trauma of the storm may raise death rates for over a decade.

Clearly, we don’t yet understand the full extent of the damage that a warming planet could inflict on us, in terms of both economics and human suffering. Often, it has come sooner and worse than we had anticipated.

And yet, we continue to use more and more energy. In spite of record growth in renewables, our greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high. When are we finally going to wake up and smell the coffee? (Oh, oops, coffee is apparently falling prey to climate change also.)

Irmgard Flaschka
Newark

Now is the time for
Israel to confront Iran

Re: “Iran’s missiles, threats justify an escalation” (Page A6, Oct. 3).