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I AM 77 years of age, born and raised in Australia, originally from Sydney but residing on the Gold Coast for the past 11 years.

The purpose of this letter is to share some of my recollections of the past and to call out the climate change cult for what it is – a hysteria created by some for their own purposes, but at the same time being utterly unethical with regard to the effect of their unfounded rantings on the young and vulnerable in our society.

I imagine that your readers of the same vintage of myself may have similar recollections to mine.

As a child in primary school, my father (who was at that time a milkman) used to pick me up from school and transport me home on the handlebars of his bike (with a strategically placed cushion to minimise the impact of bumps in the road). This arrangement worked very well except for when it rained. I have vivid recollections of long term rain events, such as we are experiencing now with the La Nina, and, of course, this meant that I couldn’t go to school because sitting on the handlebars of a bike in the pouring rain was not on. These rain events are nothing new. A normal weather event that has been always happened.

A little later, my father became a bread carter – a horse and cart arrangement, nothing motorised. Again, he picked me up from school to take me home and again in prolonged rain events, I had to stay home instead of getting drowned like poor dad did, trying to deliver bread.

Then again I recall summers of blistering heat, no airconditioning but nevertheless eating a traditional Christmas dinner and perspiring hugely while doing so. We sat in front of fans, with wet towels over our faces and even, when it got really hot, sitting in cold baths for relief. This heat went on for weeks and droughts were regularly declared, only to be met later with relentless downpours of rain and the subsequent celebrations of farmers et al.

Readers of early Australian literature will know that our climate has always been thus. Present day statistics saying that recent weather events are new and point to climate change and global warming as the cause, are incorrect. Those statistics are aimed at reporting only the last few decades to justify the claims. If they went back to the beginning of reporting, they would show that all this has happened before and is nothing new. However, it does not suit the climate cultists to do this as it would blow apart their assertions.

Mother Nature will do as she wishes. She always has and always will. It is time for we grandparents, if we haven’t already done so, to educate our children and grandchildren as to the true climate events of the past, tell them of our experiences, alleviate their fears and take a stand against those who would seek to profit – either financially or politically – from fostering the false cult of global warming and making our children and grandchildren afraid for their future.

KAY FELLINGA, MUDGEERABA