To the Editor:

My sense is that eventually many of the children and grandchildren of Donald Trump voters will realize their elders made an enormous error — some multiple times — voting for the “Drill Baby Drill” climate-change denying two-time president.

Much of the landmasses of the world are rapidly drying, including southern Alaska, California, Arizona, and Texas. California and Texas are the two most populated states with seventy million people.

Aquifers in much of the world are being quickly overdrilled and wetlands degraded and dried.

Intensifying droughts, more ferocious forest fires and flash floods, more frequent and toxic smoke, and, of course, increasing air temperatures should not be denied or ignored.

The federal government’s energy and regulatory policies will accelerate these calamities. Diminishing  and shutting down long established federal agencies and university research programs that analyze and measure climate change is an enormous mistake.

Tom Ellis

Albany