Apology accepted
Anthropogenic global warming fanatic Ray Paterson has rushed wildly to accuse me of mischief, deceit, and “a blatant lie” in regard to my letter published January 8, wherein I reported the cooling of average global temperature between February 2016, and February 2018.
He claims that “NASA and other official sources” report that 2016 was the hottest year on their records, not, apparently, having the wit to realise that he is confirming my report that the figures have fallen since then.
I provided this link to the essay which informed me -https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/04/24/did_ you_know_the_greatest_twoyear_global_cooling_event_just_ took_place_103243.html Here is a link to the NASA website from which the data were accessed — https://data.giss.nasa.gov/ gistemp/tabledata_v3/ GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
I’ll accept Mr Paterson’s apology for calling me a liar, and I won’t accuse him of being a liar. I’ll just call him a fool. ALAN JONES
Invercargill The cry used to be ‘What’s for tea, Mum?’ as a child raced home from school, but now it’s becoming more like ‘What’s for lunch, Mum?’ as more and more parents are bringing food to school, and then spending lunch time with them. This has become common place in a number of this country’s junior schools.
Teachers have often complained of the effects of helicopter parents, although they probably never thought of this happening.
It’s not that they need to bring food, as schools do see food, now usually healthy food, and there are many Uber-like food delivery systems that can pick up from the fast food hamburger joints that children really shouldn’t go to anyway.
Perhaps the more concerning issue is that the children don’t really get an opportunity to be children, and eat with their friends and develop social skills. Of course, when they become adults they will still be able to have food delivered to their desk, but will they have any conversation skills?
Enough is enough — this seems so silly that it couldn’t be true, but it is. Parents, stay home or at work, please.
DENNIS FITZGERALD
Melbourne