The Cairns Post

Fear tactics being used

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I WOULD like to ask the climate change protesters who are “in our face” on every TV news report lately – how come they have the time to sit and jeer and shake their fists and blame our Prime Minster for causing global warming and climate change?

Don’t they have paid jobs to go to or are they all “dole bludgers”, profession­al university students who owe the government “mega bucks” for their university tuition or are they just part of a paid “rent-a-crowd”? Of course the climate is changing. The climate has been changing since the planet was formed billions of years ago.

That is how it has evolved to where it is today and it will continue to change for another couple of billion years.

Only about 20,000 years ago the planet came out of an ice age that had continued for a couple of million years.

Were the protesters around then to blame Australia for that catastroph­e?

Professor Brian Cox (an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester) has stated for years that our sun is getting hotter because it is starting to burn out — in a couple of billion years.

There are more solar flares that affect our planet’s climate as well as many other areas in our solar system.

Every volcanic eruption that occurs on planet Earth is full of pollutants. Not just ash and dust, but also carbon dioxide: one of the strongest greenhouse gases on our planet.

In the largest cases, a single volcanic plume, lasting only hours, might add many millions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. There have been many of these eruptions over the last

100 years. If these “rent-a-crowd” people are really passionate about climate change and that it is manmade, then why are they not protesting in China, India, Indonesia, the US and South America where the real damage is being done?

I guess when they are finished protesting, they will get into their petroldriv­en cars and go home to their electrical-powered homes or units and cook their meals on electrical or gas-powered cookers and expect that the water in their taps does not come from manmade dams. Then they can plan their next campaign full of fear and deceptions.

Brenda Lawler, Earlville 1788: Ships of the First Fleet begin

entering Sydney Harbour.

1870: Darwin’s first settlers arrive.

1990: The first Clean Up Australia Day (above) takes place, and more than 300,000 people volunteer to help. 2004: The World Health Organisati­on says it is seeking a vaccine for the bird flu that has killed five people in Vietnam and millions of chickens across Asia. 2008: The Queensland town of Emerald is declared a disaster zone after floods force the evacuation of 370 people and cut off more than 100 properties.

2017: Hundreds of thousands of women march in cities around the globe wearing pink “pussyhats” to send new US president Donald Trump an emphatic message.

2019: A total lunar eclipse occurs, popularly dubbed a Super Blood Wolf Moon, due to the timing and orbital perigee.

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