Regarding Ernest Izett's letter 5/4/11 referring to my comments on Global Warming: My stand is and always has been, that if this condition exists at all, it is not man made.
On my casually referring to the possibility of a new ice age. This was a throw-away line, seasoned with a pinch of truth.
My slightly ironical remark was saying, 'Here we go again” Light humour, Earnest, although, as the old saying goes, 'There's many a true word spoken in a jest”; so you never know.
Ernest's gloomy picture of the horrors awaiting mankind did not include a plague of locusts.
However, I can assure him that they are around, gorging themselves on the spoils thrown up by the Climate Change Bonanza. They can readily be identified by the language that they speak. It is called, 'Bilge” and are heard to utter things like, 'The Science Is Settled”, and, 'Proof” ad nauseam.
I hope that he will take the opportunity to read some of the material referred to in my letter on the following pages of your same publication.
By the way; there is a growing school of thought that the earth's axis has moved and that the pole positions will change.
Frank Smead, Mount Maunganui.