This letter appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on August 9, 2009 in response to the previous week’s scare tactics on climate change.

An excerpt from a story on page 15 of The Daily Telegraph, Thursday July 16, 2009.

The Hu case development came as climate campaigner Al Gore met Mr.Rudd yesterday in Sydney. The former US vice president warned that Australia was in the line of fire “on climate change to which Mr.Rudd replied, ‘Al’s absolutely right”.

It appears Australia has elected a leader such as Kevin Rudd, whose ambition seems to be to satisfy his ego by jetsetting the world supporting the reports that his ambition is to be eventually elected to the United Nations. This from Prime Minister Rudd who has been quoted as saying he supports one of the world’s biggest climate change fraudsters Al Gore. There’s no discrimination when it comes to pushing the lies on climate change. Evidence of this is when former Liberal Minister Robert Hill has landed a plum of job as one of Labor’s climate change chiefs. He was Environmental Minister in the Howard Government. Mr Hill has made a comeback as the boss of the Labor Government’s $75 million, Carbon Trust. Another bureaucrat to increase the climate change lies.

World's smallest flood?

"THE sea to flood Sydney".  This was the amazing headline in the Sunday Telegraph August 2. Few sane persons would take the slightest notice of this nonsense. The Australian National University is reporting the worst drivel for our new century: a sea rise of 17cm, which is less than the stretch of my thumb to the tip of my index finger. The water would have to come from the Antarctic and Greenland, which contain 98 per cent of the ice in the world.

In both cases, we can only see the top caps as both are sitting in holes below ground level, lkm deep under Antarctica. The temperature of the visible caps is around -30C, so cold winds are not going to melt them. This leaves us with icebergs only. But the height of Antarctica is slowly rising, as more snow falls on it than icebergs remove. There has not been a meltdown in either for hundreds of thousands of years, so the chances of a rise in sea level of more than a couple of millimeters is ridiculous by 2030. Also, the CSIRO projects a temperature rise of 1.3C, 21 years away! Most meteorologists agree that any forecast of temperature for any long period of time is impossible. There are more scientists who are worried about a fall in the temperature for the next few decades, as the sun is showing that this is more than likely.

DAVID DAMES, Pymble