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P0 Box 1, Southport 4215 editorial@goldcoast.com.au facebook.com/goldcoastbulletin THE ozone layer, global warming and climate change have gone off the radar for the moment but no doubt the Adani coal mining project will reignite the debate.
Let’s try to put things in perspective. Here we are sitting on the Earth, which weighs in at 5.9725 billion million tonnes and we are spinning at about 1600km/h.
We’re surrounded by water, about 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of which, 90 per cent, is in the seas. 60 per cent of the planet is ocean at an average depth of 3.68km.
Oceans are the powerhouse of the planet’s surface. Water is marvellous at holding and transporting heat. Salinity of the sea creates currents which transfer vast amounts of heat and have an enormous effect on our climate.
We’re surrounded by 5200 million, million tonnes of air. There are 1800 lightening strikes at any one time. Volcanoes and decaying plant matter produce 200 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, almost 30 times as much as we do.
How anybody has the temerity to say we are going to reduce the global temperature by 2C by the year 2030 or even 2100 is beyond belief. The forces in the world are so enormous they are beyond our comprehension.
A few million tonnes of coal from the Adani mine will have little impact on our world.
J.W.M. HALL, HELENSVALE
THE biggest obstacle confronting former members of the Australian Defence Force is the bureaucratic bulldust that confounds anyone who seeks a satisfactory answer to a request for anything to do with their wellbeing, particularly if it means the powers-that-be might have to cough up a few quid.
Remember that a veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank cheque made payable to Australia or New Zealand for an amount of “up to and including my life”.
That is honour, and there are way too many people in this world who no longer understand it.
GRAEME BREWER
I WAS surprised when a usually tolerant female interviewer spoke to a great fellow about sowing his wild oats in his bachelor days but seemed to denigrate the women in his relationship.
It is still ingrained in our society that the bloke who goes off with another woman is OK while the woman and children feel ashamed.
There really is no need for these women or children to blame themselves for what is just bad luck.
I will feel there is real “ewomancipation” when I see a business called “Thingumabob & Daughters” with no loss of customers.
A SUTHERLAND, ROBINA
WITH the number of flaws in the F-35 fighter still to be ironed out, a Defence official says they “would be suitably addressed”. At $100 million a pop, one would hope so.
One supposes they could at least handle an Anzac Day flyover.
DAVID HALL, LABRADOR
IF the scumbags who attack ambos were in jail instead of slapped on the wrist and let go, the ambos and a lot of others would be a lot safer. Come on magistrates, do your job.
ROD WATSON, MAIN BEACH