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Editor ‘courageous’ over Carbon Tax Dear Sir, The two letters published (TWT 18/1), one from Peter Alway and one from Helen Jordon, says a lot about the courage of the TWT editor John Booth. He could of put both in the trash can, but no he published them. I say this to both of them in my 80 odd years on this earth nothing has changed because of CO.2 in the atmosphere. What has changed is the increase in population resulting in the increase of man-made pollutants to enable the nation to survive. The truth is this Government, which has the nation in a financial mess, keeps saying we will be in surplus by 2012-13. Of course we will, via the Carbon Tax. I remember when I was in 5th class at Randwick Primary School the teacher Mrs Boswald explained that the weather was controlled by the sun and the moon. Of which we on Earth had no control, other than predict it. And to John Booth I congratulate you for publishing your critics’ letters. Could you imagine Rupert Murdoch doing the same, I don’t think so. RON SQUIRES Dear Sir, I draw your attention to your front page cover story titled ‘Goodbye Global Warming Hoax; Hello CO2 Tax Rort’ (TWT 11/1). Having been a long-time reader (as with my family) and a local resident in Gladesville for almost 30 years, I was a little concerned about the tone and content on your front page. As any good journalist would know, sources and examples of any claim should always be presented. As you are probably aware, Alan Jones received a reprimand for very similar language, and in his reporting of certain issues. Debate on the Carbon Tax is welcome, as well as other efficient means to lessen our general emission and impact on our surroundings. However, I think we are at a stage where the science is not in dispute (except from a small percentage of people, most of whom are not scientists, let alone experts in climate science). Of the thousands of expert climate scientists in the world, over 94 per cent agree with this. I know if it was medicine, and I was looking at those odds ... I’d be going with the experts. Both sides of politics accept this scientific truth (well at least publicly as they realise this is the opinion of the majority). How governments act though, I totally agree with you, should be up for criticism and debate, and most importantly enabling people to offer up credible alternative solutions. I think some of your language about being ‘hounded out of town and strung up and hung and quartered for the way they are corrupting our school children with lessons in misinformation and straight out lies’ shows not only extreme ignorance of the issue and its complexities, it also would take away some decent common courtesy of a large number of your readers. Secondly, I’m sure many concerned parents would like to know the exact examples of misinformation the children of our area are being corrupted with. Evidence brings credibility, and this is quite a claim. I’ve got no issue with people having differing points of view ... but I think, given your position in the local community, that you should approach the content of your paper with a general respect for others opinions, and in attempting to provide credible articles with balanced and correct information. I will continue to read your paper as I believe it is a great local community service, but I’m sure my opinion is not a solitary one, and hope you take this advice from a long-time reader. SHAUN GILCHRIST Dear Sir, I refer to the spiteful letter from Gemma Black (TWT 18/1) that accused you of writing dim-witted sentences about carbon dioxide (TWT 11/1). What you wrote is correct. Carbon dioxide gas is natural, colourless, tasteless, odourless and non-poisonous. It is a plant food and without plants there is no life on earth. It does not deserve the constant demonizing by climate fanatics. I congratulate TWT for exposing the Carbon Tax as a fraud. Anyone who has followed the debate must realise by now that Australia’s 1.5 per cent of world carbon emissions is so small it has no, or a best negligible, effect on global warming. Can anyone tell me if Tim Flannery, Ross Garnaut, Will Steffen or any other climate guru has stated the opposite? Tim Flannery the Chief Climate Commissioner has gone further by saying, “If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of plants is not going to drop for several hundred years, perhaps over 1000 years (‘The Telegraph’, March 2011). So why the rush, why do we need to be so far ahead of the rest of the world with the world’s biggest carbon tax, just to reduce by 5 per cent something at best negligible. This week the Gillard government warned that “Australia would be hit by the huge challenges in the global economy”.(‘The Australian’, January 19). We read each day that a new financial crisis could come any day. The Gillard Government could not have picked a worse time to bring on this big new and unnecessary tax. LINDSAY ATKINSON Dear Sir, Regarding Gemma Black’s letter (TWT 18/1), a democracy can only work if each citizen has the right to speak. Not what you want to hear but their considered opinion. A while ago now on the ABC they had a program where a field trial was held in which they injected into the growing trial plot the amount of CO2 that scientists had computed would be in the air in 50 years’ time. That growth yield was better than the natural open air plot growth yield. I ask how warm is it to get before Greenland turns green again? BRIAN BINSKIN Dear Sir, I’d like to commend you for your front page editorial (TWT 11/1) headed ‘Goodbye Global Warming Hoax; Hello CO2 Tax Rort!’. How refreshing to at long last to read some commonsense being published by local suburban media regarding what will one day be seen for what it is, the greatest scam in the history of man. You’re dead right Mr Booth we, the people, have indeed “had enough” of this nonsence that we’ve been fed by a far too compliant and unquestioning mainstream media. I look forward to the next Federal election when I predict the vast majority of Australians who have bothered to research this issue in some detail will, like me, have found no evidence in support of the alarmist claims that CO2 is a pollutant, nor the primary driver of global warming. Global cooling more likely. Time then to exercise our democratic right and take great delight in booting this Green-led Labor Government out on their proverbial ear. JIM SIMPSON Dear Sir, When you get sick JB do you go to a doctor or a quack? I guess you go to a quack. If the overwhelming majority of climate scientists say that global warming is real and caused by human activity then you’d be pretty stupid to disagree. Maybe the experts are wrong but why would you gamble the fate of the Earth on it. That’s pretty stupid, too. And what about the acidification of the oceans caused by excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Do you take that into account or do you just not care? PETER WISDOM Dear Sir, At last an editorial that is honest and speaks the truth about the climate change industry and its tax (TWT 11/1). That the C02 tax will do ‘something’ to change the temperature of the planet is just another hoax - like the Y2K bug and other scares before it. And just like all these scares, there are those like Al Gore who are lining their pockets at the expense of the gullible. The C02 tax is designed for the UN to line their coffers and redistribute wealth - our wealth - to developing countries, such as China. Most frustrating is that our yearly emissions are minuscule compared to China’s emissions in a single month. Scientists retiring from the highly funded carbon tax industry are becoming more vocal and spilling the beans on the climate fraudsters. This tax on energy has already started to hurt Australia. Even before the tax is introduced, we’ve witnessed the decimation of the aluminium industry and we’re paying dearly for so-called green energy. Under a C02 tax or an emissions trading scheme, electricity will become a luxury many Australians will not be able to afford. The C02 tax will make no difference to the climate or the temperature of the planet. Fortunately, the climate change cat is out of the bag and people are waking up to the hoax that is being perpetrated on Australia. ANNE EASBY Dear Sir, I refer to our front page editorial ‘Goodbye Global Warming Hoax; Hello CO2 Tax Rort!’ (TWT 11/1) It made a pleasant change to the usual anthropogenic global warming propaganda that has been such a feature in most of the mainstream media over the past 20 to 30 years. With the doom and gloom and unprecedented weather stories to back up Al Gore’s fantasy film, it’s no wonder there are so many confused people. This is especially evident in younger people who do not have years of experience to draw upon with regard to weather variability; this has made them easy prey for those pushing an ‘alarmist’ agenda. Happily we now have the internet which enables those of us who actually do our own independent research to sift out the wheat from the chaff. As one who has done this assiduously in the past several years it has become more and more apparent that there is now a great deal of corruption in many of our previously sacrosanct and noble institutions caused by those two great enemies of both the truth and science: money and politics. I note that Ms Black who wrote to you condemning you for ‘peddling misinformation’ and who let you know - with some relish it seems - that she has reported you to the appropriate authorities. I seem to recall that this sort of thing was standard procedure in a certain European country in the 1930s, and look where that got everyone. Keep up the good work. It is indeed refreshing to see a newspaper actually daring to tell the truth. MICHAEL SPENCER Dear Sir, It put fear in my heart to read Gemma Black’s last paragraph (TWT Letters 18/1) stating she had been in touch with Media Watch and ACMA re your editor’s views on global warming. No matter what one’s beliefs on this subject; freedom of speech provides a forum for arguing one’s case rather than making threats to shut down the debate. Some of us may not believe in Global Warming but surely we all believe in democracy. JILL RADFORD Illegal parking by cafe owners Dear sir, Having been a long-time resident of Gladesville, I still frequent the shopping centre regularly. In the latter part of 2011 and particularly in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the parking was a disgrace. As I suffered a stroke several years ago my mobility can be a problem, so I try to park as close as I can to the shops, particularly on Victoria Road between Cowell and Junction streets. But I have been frustrated and angered that spaces are occupied by several business owners and restaurateurs parking their own cars in the half-hour spaces on Victoria Road all day once the clearway ends at 10am. Or they can be found in the two-hour limit car park beside the TAB (again all day). Where are the Hunters Hill Rangers? What a loss of revenue. SIMON TOWNSEND Another angel Dear Sir, Your cover story in TWT (TWT 18/1) endorses my experience. No name given so a reward not possible. DOROTHY DOYLE. |
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