On other matters

The global plastics plague. Have we no shame humans?

Norm, Cairns camp - has not diminished over the last five days, numbering about 600.

Deputy Mayor Terry James says there are no pregnant females.

Virtually all adult females are pregnant, averaging three months of a total six month gestation period - ie significantly pregnant.

The public should know that evictions cause stress and repeated evictions cause chronic stress which leads to abortions. Well done the seamless web.

I call on Deputy Mayor Terry James to publicly acknowledge his mistake and correct the public record.

Geoff Holland, Machans Beach

Ms Credlin wrongly infers Shellenberger is a highly qualified climate scientist who has changed sides, come out as a climate change denier, and apologised for his previous stance.

Firstly, Shellenberger is an author, not a climate scientist.

He claims to be an environmentalist, but is funded by nuclear interests.

Secondly, he had not changed sides as Ms Credlin suggests.

He has openly preached climate change denialism for over 15 years.

Thirdly, this latest and his previous publications are described as controversial, riddled with errors and have been discredited.

Fourthly, Shellenberger cleverly mixes some facts with half truths and some complete falsehoods in this attempt to disprove climate change.

If Ms Credlin wants any credibility, she should do basic research first.

She has always been a climate change denier, and quoting unqualified, unreliable fellow deniers is her sole option when the science and data prove her wrong.

Terry Hayton, Kanimbla 1858: Four die in Australia’s first rail

crash, at Lidcombe, NSW.

1900: The Paris subway, the Metro,

opens.

1962: The Telstar satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, bringing live television from the US to Europe for the first time.

1965: British rock group The Rolling Stones score their first number-one hit in the US - Satisfaction.

1973: Independence for the Bahamas

after three centuries of British rule. 1975: US actor/singer Cher files for divorce from singer Gregg Allman, 10 days after they were married, on the grounds he is seeing an old girlfriend. 1991: Boris Yeltsin (above) takes an oath of office as first elected president of Russia.

2018: Cheers erupt as the last of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach emerge from a cave in northern Thailand, ending a gruelling 18-day ordeal that gripped people around the world.