YOUR VIEWS
THE COP-out politicians ruining Australia and its industries have promised impossible net-zero emissions targets (by some date well after they have left office). So why spend millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising for more tourists or vying for more games and circuses? Rich tourists are heavy-emitters.
While Covid barriers hamper Australians wanting to tour our own country, foreigners are offered red-carpet “quarantine-free” travel. At the same time, politicians continue to make it difficult for foreign backpacker/workers.
These foreign sightseers will also guzzle up our largely imported fuel stocks. Australia is not extracting, refining or storing enough hydrocarbon fuels to survive even a small hiccup to our import chain.
Our cattle and sheep are censored because of their emissions, but these idolised tourists will burn megatonnes of hydrocarbon fuels powering planes, taxis, cars, buses, trains, lifts, airconditioners and electrical appliances.
And, like our cattle and sheep, every tourist farts and burps. VIV FORBES, WASHPOOL
IN REPLY to Shaun Cuneen (Bulletin 23/11), I must say that I was highly amused to read an article in Research 2021 describing the research conducted by the highly decorated Professor Sharon Robinson (University of Wollongong) in which her research into the green moss beds in Antarctica shows they are gradually turning brown due to the effects of climate change and as a result are returning to the condition they were in 500 years ago. She should be aware of the close fit between her observations and the effects of the Little Ice Age, which began 500 years ago, peaked in the mid 1800s and presumably will run its course in around 2020.
The article suggests that she appears to be unaware that her research provides indisputable evidence that the levels of so-called “greenhouse gases”, in particular carbon dioxide, have little or any historical influence on climate change, but rather that the overreaching effect is the Little Ice Age, which is a scientifically indisputable fact and provides a close fit with what we are seeing, as distinct from the litany of failed predictions based on computer simulations.
The “pub test” is that we can therefore expect that farming will soon resume in Greenland as was the case 500 years ago, as evidenced by currently emerging farmhouses there. CHRISTOPHER JOHN BROWNE, ROBINA
THE LNP federal government is still supporting resource companies to open up dozens of new coal and gas sites. Never mind that banks and insurers internationally are deserting such projects.
While the toll of climate change inaction is rising, environmentalists are now livid after Woodside recently inked a massive deal with BHP which will see a gas field created in northwest Western Australia – an area larger than Singapore.
Gas is not a transition fuel. Instead of replacing coal, it’s replacing actual green energy opportunities.