In response to M Whitwell (September 7) praising Roger Rabbits' clever parody on a climate change conference (August 24), let's be clear about the distinction between the sometimes muddled politics of climate change and its unequivocal science.
It would be naive in the extreme to believe that such wit will make the scientific certainty of the looming climate crisis magically disappear.
Anyone who attempts to ridicule those who are prepared to face the issue head on can at best only succeed in making sure that at least some of our society continue to live in a fool's paradise.
They, and perhaps their descendants, will be left completely unprepared to face the consequences of increasingly extreme weather and eventual coastal inundation and lowland flooding.
Words, however clever, are not likely to change the course on which we have already set Nature.
P Otway, Omokoroa.
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Global warming?
Posted on 15-09-2018 12:37 | By crazyhorse
I see P Otway was careful not to say "man" made climate change. The alarmist community has had almost three decades to prove its assumptions, and while it is plausible that there has been a small measure of warming, the disaster many predicted hasn't occurred. Worse for them, it's impossible to say with any degree of certainty that the warming that has happened — and quite possibly there's been none at all — was caused by man. Earth's climate has warmed and cooled throughout its existence. It's part of the natural cycle. The alarmist community persists and never acknowledges that it might be wrong. At the same time, when its members are pressed to prove that their one-way beliefs are indeed fact, they can't do it.
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