I am happy to address Peter Otway's letter June 25, but first allow me to clarify one or two points:
The terms. Global Warming/Climate Change, that I am interested in, refers to Man Made Change and not the inevitable changes that, based on the long, long history of our planet, are coming as an unstoppable force and which there is nothing, I repeat 'Nothing”, that we can do to derail. We can, however, utilise our inherent survival instincts and adjust; more clothing, less clothing. I am sure that you know the drill.
Peter Otway can discover some of the vagaries of the fairly recent climate changes by looking up 'The Medieval Warm Period”;800AD-1300AD; followed by 'The Little Ice Age”,1300AD-1860AD. Not a gas-guzzler in sight.
Your correspondent leans heavily on the, 'integrity of the actual science of global warming/climate change as being intact”.
Does this include the 'integrity 'of the IPPC, that collection of politically selected yes men, who were responsible for promoting the shameful and false Hockey Stick Finding, which, if accepted, would have put the lie to the work of decent and dedicated scientists, who were simply seeking the truth. Whatever it happens to be.
Does this mean that 'their” claims that we are responsible for making a mess, which is, in turn, causing, or about to cause, catastrophic changes to our atmosphere, have been scientifically proven, or do they, still plodding on, hope to prove, that we are hastening the forces already in train?
Let us not forget that the 'Man Made” claim has been bandied around for years and then the sales pitches started, with that con man Al Gore, who has made and is still making millions on the Carbon Credit Scam and who's side-shows put the frighteners on millions. This is the Al Gore who when summoned to testify before The U.S Senate last year, was torn to shreds by the investigating Senators, as his mouthings completely undid him.
Mr Otway ends his letter by reminding us that the threat the ETS endeavours to address is as real as ever. He neglected to point that the ETS draws the majority of its forebodings from, its hand-maiden, the Zealots and that we already have adequate legislation in place, which, when beefed up, should keep NZ clean and green, without being bombarded and blinded with Storing Carbon in Trees: 'The price per tonne of carbon”; etc and sucking up to 'Trading Partners”, who are too smart to inflict this rubbish on its own citizens.
Frank Smead, Mt Maunganui.