I would like to thank letter writer Jim Bates for his concern about solar panels through this snowy period [“Misses global warming,” Recorder, Feb. 26]. I’m sure he will be happy to hear that the snow melts off my solar panels quite quickly— usually the same day it has fallen — and that they have reliably generated electricity through the winter just like they always do.
And as much as I wish the writer were correct that our local weather meant we need not be concerned about the global climate, data from Donald Trump’s NOAA (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202601) shows 2025 to have been the third warmest year on record and January to have been the fifth warmest on record, continuing the overall global trends we have been seeing for decades now of increased global temperatures, reduced snowfall, shrinking polar ice coverage, and more severe storms.
Pete Brown
Greenfield