The core argument in Stephen Stromberg's Sept. 2 PostPartisan blog excerpt, "No, the president isn't a climate hypocrite," is a shell game, a political convenience to skirt the main issue, which is avoiding climate catastrophe later this century.
Plus, significantly, the Arctic is already heating up at twice the rate as the rest of the world. Drilling in Arctic Alaska is a horrible idea for a variety of reasons and bad for the climate specifically. For the president to fail even to acknowledge these massive risks is cynical and sad. And it makes him hypocritical given his lofty rhetoric on global warming this week in Alaska.
William J. Snape III, Washington
The writer is a senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity.