How Hawaii is going to adapt to the impacts of climate change is gearing up to be a big issue in the Ledge this year. 

Civil Beat recently published a series of articles on the issue. 

But scientists from here and abroad are still fighting over whether climate change is a real threat. 

The Wall Street Journal recently published an op-ed from sixteen scientists, entitled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming.”

The piece created a lot of buzz. 

Climate change scientists struck back on Tuesday with a rebuttal. 

They didn’t pull their punches:

You published “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most of these authors have no expertise in climate science. The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert. This happens in nearly every field of science. For example, there is a retrovirus expert who does not accept that HIV causes AIDS. And it is instructive to recall that a few scientists continued to state that smoking did not cause cancer, long after that was settled science.

Read the full piece here.