To the Journal editor:

Physics is blind and incorruptible. The rules were set at creation and have never changed.

For individuals, nations, and generations who respect the rules of nature, success is assured.

Courts are manmade entities and as such are imperfect. Courts generally deliver justice but there have been times in history when decisions did not meet the needs of the moment.

Six Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices, by eviscerating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have made it nearly impossible for the EPA to protect future generations from the ravages of climate change.

The recent ruling in “West Virginia v EPA” ignored science and did not reflect the majority opinion of the public.

In 1970 Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act creating the EPA after Congress recognized the need for a science based regulatory agency.

Until this recent ruling the Supreme Court has generally recognized the EPA’s expertise and supported its responsibility to regulate greenhouse gasses in cases like Chevron vs The Natural Resources Defense Council, and Massachusetts vs the EPA.

But the six Republican Justices, in a folly of shaky reasoning, decided to end 50 years of precedent. By refusing to support the congressionally created agency tasked with protecting our environment, the Supreme Court Six legislated their opinion against the science-based agency created by Congress.

The timing could not be more irresponsible or more opposed to public opinion. The need to change is now. The reasoning to obstruct the work of the EPA is weak and in violation of precedent.

Today, as noted by a Yale study, over 70% of United States citizens support tackling the climate threat by reigning in climate destroying greenhouse gasses.

What can we do? New legislation supporting the EPA is needed. Republicans are heavily funded by Big Coal, Oil, and Gas as documented by Open Secrets. It is hard to imagine any Republican standing up to support science. This would put thousands of oil dollars fueling their political machines at risk.

This means if the undone work of reducing greenhouse gasses is to move forward, we must vote for Democrats.

Regarding the Republican Six Justices, they have proven themselves science illiterate.

If they persist in obstructing the scientists at the EPA, then we must add four more members to the Supreme Court who are not science ignorant.

Earth needs us now so we must act: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

GREYSON MORROW

Wakefield