Challenging the thinking on climate change

AN excellent letter from R J McKenzie (ODT, 21.11.18). Your paper carried an article about 150 academics imploring the government to act, in response to the deepening ecological crisis.

They wailed: ‘‘The science is clear, the facts are indisputable, and it is unacceptable to us that future generations should have to bear the terrifying consequences of climate breakdown’’.

Most of the undersigned (28% from Otago) are in the Government employ, but from disciplines where they would have little experience with the subject. This is typical ‘‘Groupthink’’.

The world’s temperature for the last two decades stubbornly refuses to warm as predicted by the ‘‘Climate Computer Models’’ even though the atmospheric CO2 continues to rise, 10%plus in that period.

There is no compelling information that greenhouse gases drive the climate, unless we believe Vladimir Lenin — ‘‘a lie told often enough becomes the truth’’.

Every weather event is not due to ‘‘climate change’’. Natural variation is the prime factor.

We are very naive to think we humans can control the climate, although the expected cost of between $25 to $75 per person per month to 2030 might cause some sanity to return to voters.

Jock Allison

Dunedin