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AW, fair dinkum, Jim Taylor (GCB, 28/11/18), don’t spruik the Greens’ wrongology and then whinge about being called a “greenie”. Would you prefer “warmunist”? The fact that warmunists claim “superior knowledge” while refusing open public debate with sceptics tells you all you need to know.

They know their “science” is wrong because they’ve never made an accurate prediction – the true test of proper science. If your prediction is wrong, your theory is wrong. Simple.

As to the specific wrongology quoted by Mr Taylor, atmospheric CO2, the gas of life, increases as a result of the oceans warming and releasing it. CO2 follows warming – it doesn’t cause it. This fact has flipped many from warmunist to sceptic-realist – me included.

Just 10,000 years ago it was warmer than now with lower CO2; same with 125,000, 225,000 and 320,000 years ago. CO2 has zero effect on temperature.

The bit about CO2 passing 400ppm “for the first time in history” is laughable. Life evolved at 7000ppm and plants prefer 2000ppm.

The real questions for warmunists is why do you want to do without modern conveniences? More relevantly, why do you want to strip everyone else of them? PETER CAMPION

I AM writing to ask for anyone who saw my wife fall at cinema 2 at The Arts Centre Gold Coast on October 28, 2017 to please contact me on 0438 721 199. The movie was Beatriz at Dinner and we had arrived after the lights were turned off. JOHN P MAXWELL, MERMAID WATERS

A YEAR ago most people were kicking themselves for missing out on investing in Bitcoin as it soared to $25,980 on December 11, 2017.

Today it has lost a massive 75 per cent and is down to only $5280.

Now to explode those other two popular myths – global warming and climate change. ALAN MIDWOOD

REGARDING cruise ship competition between Brisbane and the Gold Coast terminals. If the latter is ever built, the two ports will complement one another, not compete.

One only needs to study cruise ship operators in the Mediterranean to see how ports very close together such as Split and Dubrovnik in Croatia are popular destinations. Liners dock for the day before cruising overnight slowly to the next port of call.

Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast have multiple tourist options as is the case for the Gold Coast and our stunning hinterland, not forgetting Bryon Bay.

This will bring in more tourist dollars for South East Queensland as a whole than is currently the case. It is a pity that some critics of a cruise ship terminal for our city are not better informed. NIGEL SHEPHERD, HOPE ISLAND I APPRECIATE the comments by John McGeorge (letters, 27/11/18) but I think he’s missed my point.

Sure, we all have likes and dislikes, different tastes and sometimes conflicting opinions but a fact is a fact and should not be messed with to suit a whim.

If you set up an organisation with procedures and rules and then found people in that organisation wanted to interpret those rules to suit their choices, what a shambles that would be.

I was brought up initially as a Catholic. Mum was a good Catholic woman, Dad was a Scottish Presbyterian. The only thing they argued about was religion.

From age 12 I went to a Presbyterian church. So in my teenage years I knew there was something wrong with established religions.

I still feel that way and have searched for the truth.

Jesus called simple men to preach his simple gospel. In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians he tells them “..... the world with its wisdom knew not God” (1 Cor. 21) BOB HOWDEN, BROADBEACH

JOURNALISTS get it wrong every now and then but the sports journalists reporting on the neverending NRL coaching debacle never get it right.

One is actually claiming to have inside information which so far has not been close to correct.

Come on fellas, facts please. ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE