Frank Smead, writing in the Weekend Sun on 18 June under 'Forget credit card scandals, ETS tax is the greatest betrayal”, continues to base his ongoing strident criticism of the politics attached to climate change on 'the world-wide rejection of the Global Warming myth”. He, and the multitude of other sceptics and deniers, seem to be wilfully ignorant that the 'rejection” is purely in their own minds. On the contrary, the integrity of the actual science of global warming/climate change remains intact.
Not only does the weight of evidence prove that the rate of warming will almost certainly continue increasing in the long term but there is new evidence, from increasingly rapid melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet margins, that global sea level rise is likely to be even more serious than predicted just three years ago.
Certainly, continue to debate the politics of the ETS issue, as intelligently as possible, but just remember that the underlying threat ETS endeavours to address is as real as ever.
Peter Otway, Pahoia.