The Day editorial staff should be commended for the May 9 editorial, "Climate disaster awaits our children unless all act now." It was poignant and accurately informative. It was worth reading in May and more worthwhile readling today. The Day did not pull punches, it told the hard truth.

Earth's atmosphere crashed through the CO2 350 ppm mark in the mid-1980s and today stands at 415 ppm. It will likely reach CO2 425 ppm in three years. CO2 425 ppm and the associated global temperature rise bring us to the brink of irreverse climate destabilization.

A recent Day letter included the sentence, "the climate is always changing so what's the big deal?" This confusion is understandable as the fossil fuel industry and its paid scientists and various news media outlets have gone out of their way to confuse the terms climate and weather. Politicians, accepting donations from the fossil-fuel industry, call climate change "phony" and "a hoax.

The reality is that we have little time to act. The emergency is not in the future; our global crisis is now.

Society must abandon ultra-carbon oil sands and methan fracking, convert to renewable energy sources, switch to all-electric vehicles and impose carbon taxes and fossil-fuel restrictions worldwide.

John Kelley

Leyard