Re: ‘Talking climate change in Tauranga' article in The Weekend Sun, March 4.

I object to any part of my rates going to a purveyor of the mouthings of the totally discredited Al Gore.

This failed politician hooked into making millions out of the gullibility of the easily led ‘do gooders' - his film the ‘Inconvenient Truth' has been completely demolished by science and actual measured world facts to the extent that many authorities have even banned the screening of this dishonest and destructive propaganda.

This is not my opinion but statements of fact.

Just this week national weather news has been touting February as being the hottest on record yet the actual facts do not support this in any way.

For example, Christchurch was said to have broken a new record this year with a sweltering 36.1 degrees Celsius.

Yet in 2009 it exceeded 41 degrees Celsius and in Rangiora on February 7, 1973, a high of 42.4 degrees Celsius was recorded. So once again we get these ‘warmist' climate change people obviously making it up as they go along.

As far as I'm concerned they can waste their lives chasing after moonbeams just as long as they and their local spokeswoman Michelle Elborn and her ilk don't want me to pay for their misguided stupidity.

Shame on you Tauranga City Council for getting sucked into this Populist rubbish - the unwarranted costs associated with the Y2K fiasco are still being counted.

Let's get off this ‘warmist' merry-go-round before the costs of it also get right out of hand.

R Smith, Matua