No conspiracy on climate

PETER Champion (2/10) writes that the Tolga-based ‘relaxivism’ think tank has uncovered a conspiracy involving the Bureau of Meteorology, Tim Nicholls and the old Communist Party of Australia.

Fact check: the CPA ceased standing in elections in 1961, having lost its deposit for decades. Tim Nicholls is a longstanding member of the LNP who believes in selling public power stations;and BOM is staffed by scientists, not socialists.

He distorts what I said about Queensland’s September temperatures by omitting “since reliable temperature records began”.

Then he talks about reliable temperature records from ancient civilisations on the opposite side of the world, which predate the invention of the thermometer. Me? I’ll trust the experts. Sean McGinn, Clifton Beach 1511: Pope Julius II forms the Holy League between Aragon, Venice and the papacy. 1795: Artillery commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte shoots down rebels marching against the National Convention in Paris, saving the republic. 1892: Dalton Gang, notorious for train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. 1947: US President Truman delivers the first televised address from the White House. 1962: The Beatles’ first hit, Love Me Do,

is released in the United Kingdom. 1969: Monty Python’s Flying Circus

makes its debut on BBC-TV. 1974: Five people are killed and 35 injured by Irish nationalist guerilla bombs in two bars in Guildford, England. 1989: The Dalai Lama (above) wins the

Nobel Peace Prize. 2010: Ex-trader French Jerome Kerviel is convicted on all counts in history’s biggest rogue trading scandal, sentenced to at least three years in prison and ordered to pay his former employer damages of $7.35 billion.