Climate Change Letters
December 16, 2007 5:43 PM
Lib Dem Cllr Marc Oxley and Professor John Twidell have had several letters published in the Mercury with regard to climate change. Here is one of Marc's letters.
Sir,
Mr Hearnshaw in his letter to the Rutland Mercury of the 16th tells me to pull my head out of the sand and wake up to his reality of the situation we are faced with. He believes, very strongly, that the arguments put forward by Climate change sceptics in the 1970's are still relevant in today's world.
There are still a few scientists who are busy fuelling those beliefs; that Climate Change is a naturally occurring event or that it is caused by sunspots or flawed computer models. Belief is the key word. I prefer to keep an open mind and listen to informed opinion on the subject. I keep my eyes wide open on the subject.
It took 10,000 years for the population to reach an estimated 1.6 billion by the year 1900. By 1950 it had reached 2.5 billion. The world now has 6.1 billion people, all of whom need food and shelter.
Source : Wikipedia World Population.
The world has changed enormously in just the last 10 years. Unprecedented change. We cannot sit back and watch it happen. Many of the issues highlighted in the 1970's have come true. We now have vast reductions in sea ice, a meltdown of the permafrost in the Arctic, more frequent and powerful Hurricanes and Tropical storms caused by warmer seas, decimated Glaciers. The list is endless.
A very informative series of pages on the subject of Climate Change sceptics has been produced by the BBC on their News 24 pages. Finally watch Al Gores an Inconvenient Truth, it's not doom laden scaremongering as Mr Hearnshaw would have you believe.
Thank you,
Marc Oxley
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