It is reassuring to hear Prime Minister Bill English express a moderate view of climate change and not be drawn into the acceptance, as has US President Barack Obama, of the necessity for extreme and immediate action to avoid a cataclysmic future. Obama, like Al Gore, has said there is no need of further discussion and in so doing dismisses the findings of thousands of highly qualified international scientists who are vilified as ‘deniers' and ‘flat earthers' without any assistance from governments or the media to voice their concerns. For scientists to dogmatically refuse to even discuss such matters with other dissenting scientists is extreme arrogance fostered by the assurance of international governments' financial support. I can guarantee any objective person, willing to spend an hour or so on YouTube, Google or Wikipedia, observing genuine, skeptical scientists - a scientist must be skeptical without proof - from both sides, discussing verifiable facts, will very quickly realise the projections of Al Gore and his followers of horrendous ‘global Warming' and its appalling results are, at least, over-stated.

B Johnson, Omokoroa.