The axiom that every person is entitled to an opinion but not his own set of facts comes into play while reading Francis T. Lake Sr.’s letter from Monday, May 28, “Consensus on climate wrongly assumes scientists are always right.”His undocumented claim that hundreds of scientists made statements in the early 1970s warning of “the dire consequences of global cooling and a coming ice age” treats fiction as fact and fact as fiction. One hopes Mr.
Letter: In climate debate, fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact
