I have an email folder labeled "Angry Mail." It's not exactly bursting at its digital seams, but every once in a while I have to answer a letter from a reader who's upset about something. (Someone else answers all the friendly mail; I only get the nasty stuff.) So yesterday I finally dealt with one that had been sitting there for a few weeks. Its subject line was: Geoengineering and "Global Warming."
You can probably guess from the scare quotes that this reader, a girl of unspecified teen age, doesn't believe in climate change. We ran a cover story about geoengineers, scientists who are proposing drastic physical measures (cloud seeding; giant space umbrellas) to counteract global warming. Anonymous Reader disagrees with our premise: "I really think the geoengineering article in the April issue was totally one-sided. It didn't acknowledge that some of the things the author presented as scientific fact ...
