Global warming is hot air

RE: John Pratt, ”Climate change is real” (CP, 21/11). Global warming is just a lot of “hot air”. And, if you believe that global warming is real, then you must live in “Fairyland”. In the US, severe winter temperatures have arrived a full 60 days early.

“Houston reported its earliest snowfall ever, beating places like New York City and Boston as a cold snap descended over Texas. The Intercontinental Airport in Houston set a new record for the first observed snowfall, breaking one set on November 23, 1979, according to a Twitter post from the National Weather Service.” – Bloomberg.

Here in Australia we have a recordbreaking cold snap in WA’s south, which wiped out vineyards and frost-damaged grapevines after the record-breaking November cold snap. Winemakers in WA’s Great Southern Region are reeling from a recent frost event that damaged up to 80 per cent of their vines.

The acclaimed Frankland River wine region, 120 kilometres northwest of Albany, was worst hit by record-low temperatures for November, which swept across the region earlier this week. Werner Schmidlin, Yorkeys Knob 1956: The first Olympics held in the southern hemisphere opens in Melbourne with junior world mile record holder Ron Clarke lighting the flame (above). 1963: US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice-President Lyndon B Johnson becomes the 36th president. 2002: Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria and move it instead to London after news that the African nation will host the event sparks deadly riots. 2005: Conservative Angela Merkel takes power as Germany’s first female chancellor and the country’s first leader to grow up under communism in East Germany. 2012: Billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer quits Queensland’s Liberal National Party. 2014: Ecuador guarantees political asylum to Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for “as long as necessary”. PRIVACY POLICY: Our privacy policy www.apnarm.com.au/privacy includes important information about our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information (including to provide you with targeted advertising based on your online activities). It explains that if you do not provide us with information we have requested from you, we may not be able to provide you with the goods and services you require. It also explains how you can access or seek correction of your personal information, how you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with a complaint of that nature. CONDITIONS: Letters must be 150 words or fewer. Send them to PO Box 126, Cairns 4870 or email letters@cairnspost.com.au. They must include your name, home address and telephone number. Letters that can not be verified will not be published. The Cairns Post reserves the right to edit all letters and reproduce them in electronic form. TXT messages should be short. Include your name and suburb. Your TXT messages will be printed in TXT language. Normal call costs apply. Please check The Cairns Post website for our privacy policy at www.cairnspost.com.au