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THE technique of groupthink employed by the climate evangelists was honed many years ago by the Russian dictator Josef Stalin.
He made sure his supporters in the Party opened any discussion with the phrase “As is well known…”
Now we have the mantra “Climate Change is Real”.
Little has changed. Andrew Bolt (GCB 20/9) nailed it when he asked: Where is the proof?
Professor Ian Plimer, probably Australia’s foremost geologist, put it best when he wrote: “It is a statement of belief. It belongs to the world of religion or politics – it is not science.”
Unfortunately for the True Believers, as letters to this newspaper show, more people are waking up to the hoax and fraud that is climate change.
P.C. WILSON, MIAMI
MUCH has been said and written about the Tugun Oceanway. I tend to agree with Renton Winders’ recent article and no I don’t live on the affected oceanfront. Wish I did.
I think they have been treated unfairly by the Council if they have contributed to the rock wall and are responsible for maintenance.
In fact we are very fortunate to live at Bilinga and will take advantage of the pathway so I’m glad it’s being done but some parts of it are not fair.
But fairness doesn’t come into it these days, everybody just looks at it to their advantage and the tall poppy syndrome is alive and well.
If you’ve got it, I want it or I want you to only have what I’ve got, no matter how you got to where you are.
Why if this is right for Tugun is it not right for Hedges Ave or Jefferson Lane? Could it be vested interests or influential friends living there?
These locations are much busier than Tugun and more in need.
Where are the locals and Councillors in these locations lobbying for their residents in the same way?
Will anyone come out of the woodwork and say if it’s right for Tugun then we want it too?
PETER MANTHEY
IN Bulletin 14/09 there was a list of the pay of current and departing CEOs from the region, ranging upwards from $400,000 to $1.6 million. These pale into insignificance in comparison to the recent payout to the now departed CEO of AGL Power, which amounted to over $7 million, and we wonder why our power bills are so high.
VERN EVES, TWEED
THANK heavens, at last cast iron proof is just round the corner that it is us despicable humans that are causing global warming.
Our sister planet Venus had a climate many billions of years ago not dissimilar to ours and then a terrific emission of CO2 started causing a cycle of heating that resulted in an uninhabitable globe.
Funds are being gathered as we speak to send probes to Venus to confirm the presence of V8 engines, coal-fired power stations and of course evidence of the main culprit for this greenhouse effect – public-funded scientists flying to far flung destinations where they play with computer climate models that are invariably incorrect.
We wait with bated breath (those of us with airconditioning) for those first stunning images of the Venusian versions of Stevenson’s Rocket, Coolangatta Airport and of course the motorbikes that the bikie drug dealers used on full throttle to race back into Veensland when the Vannastacia Valaszczuk government invited them back in to the Vold Voast.
TREVOR THOMAS COOMERA
AS a Pommy, for the life of me I can’t understand how the price of fuel fluctuates so greatly here in Australia.
The price of petrol changes but once a year in the UK and that once is on Budget Day when three items always go up in price: alcohol, cigarettes and petrol.
That price then stays in operation until budget day the following year. The Suez crisis was an exception.
There must obviously be a reason but can anybody explain to me why the two islands are so vastly different in their operation?
FRANK TEWKESBURY SOUTHPORT
I AM writing to declare publicly that the Council plan to replace green space surrounding the new HOTA development with a carpark must not continue.
I read in the Bulletin that there is a strong bid to save the green space, and rightly so.
I and many others use the space frequently for recreation, sports and other outdoor activities.
If parking is so necessary (which it isn’t), then improve public transport. Don’t ruin that which we can never repair.
RAFE SHOLER SURFERS PARADISE