BRUCE MCLAREN RETIREMENT VILLAGE

795 Chapel Road, Howick

Climate Calamity

Thank you Ryan Price [You’re missing the point, Times, May 3).

You make many good points. The one that stands out for me is the deceitful ideas of climate calamity that have largely been accepted by society and our politicians.

Gas and petrol are the nation’s cheapest energy fuels and when energy prices increase, everything becomes more expensive, not just groceries. It affects the economy.

Gas is the cheapest energy resource we have in New Zealand and we should be delivering to the people and to industry. It’s our natural resources.

The truth is the climate is doing its usual ups and downs and we do not have human hands controlling that steering wheel.

Fortunately, we do know the wise and powerful hands that do. I’m reminded of Noah’s worldwide flood some 4250 years ago which was determined by those same hands.

Ian George, Howick

HERE ARE THE SIMPLE FACTS

Re: You’re missing the point, Ryan Price [Times, May 3].

Again Ryan Price refuses to answer my question: Explain why adding CO2 to the atmosphere does not cause Earth to retain more energy from the Sun.

Because that is the crux of the matter. We have increased the level of CO2 by 50 per cent and his argument is we have not caused global warming.

Here are the simple facts: 1, satellite measurements show adding CO2 has reduced cooling. 2, atmospheric physics explains why. 3, experts agree on the science and warn us unless we reduce GHG emissions now, we risk reaching tipping points –when the warming becomes unstoppable.

Expert answers to Ryan Price’s evidencefree assertions may be found here skepticalscience.com/about.shtml.

You won’t change his mind. You cannot reason someone out of a belief he has not reasoned himself into.

Dennis Horne, Howick

GORE COUNCIL

From all that I have seen in print news and TV, it becomes increasingly clear that politicians, central or local, should have a limited term in office. Career politicians at any level do not work for the benefit of electors after three or four terms, only for their own self esteem.

Derek Paterson, Sunnyhills

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Politicians love to bandy about the term greenhouse gases and their progress in eliminating them, diverting our attention from the real villain which is air pollution and they are two quite separate entities.

Air pollution, as such, is damaging to human health. In fact, damage caused by air pollution to humans is estimated to cost $58.1 trillion per annum whereas greenhouse gases are required for life on earth as they provide insulation from the cold vacuum of space and are generally harmless.

So in the unlikely event you hear a politician talking air pollution, you have found a rarity - an honest politician - but you more than likely won’t because that would expose their greatest failure in preserving human life on planet Earth in the 21st Century and, unlike greenhouse gases, is steadily getting worse.

Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay

Open Home and Morning Tea

10am-12 noon

Friday, 19th & 26th May

Come along and share some morning tea with us and discover your dream apartment at Pakuranga Park.

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