Kudos go to The Times’ Viewpoint section on Sunday for at least asking whether global climate change should have been an election issue. Brickbats go to Amy Ridenour for dismissing the need to even discuss that vital issue, particularly in the wake of unprecedented wildfires and Hurricane Sandy. But Ms. Ridenour goes considerably beyond merely dismissing the future of our planet; she characterizes the very issue of global warming as merely “a canard promoted by self-serving profiteers” (to quote your headline).