Letters to the editor: January 10

In the previous 16 years the Earth's temperature has risen only 1/200ths of a degree. Photo / Thinkstock

Climate alarm

Great to hear from another armchair climate sceptic displaying common sense, at a time when common sense is apparently quite rare - "Hot Air" January 6.

It must be difficult for climate change adherents to hold fast to their beliefs with the IPCC's admission that, in the previous 16 years the Earth's temperature has risen only 1/200ths of a degree, while CO2 levels are up 8 per cent.

This is the "settled science" we've had to endure propounded ad-nauseam from pro-climate change alarmists.

Lets never forget that it is CO2 emissions that we are taxed on, not the Earth's temperature.

So if CO2 levels are up and the temperature flat-lining, why are we still hearing from people like Jim Salinger, calling for more sacrifice to forestall catastrophic warming over the next 100 years, when they can't even get it right over 16?

It can only be "Poetic Justice", when scientific missions, in order to prove their claim of diminishing sea-ice, end up marooned in their ideological folly, requiring others to risk their lives to rescue them.

All stops have been pulled to find the evidence necessary to convince an increasingly sceptical world public, that climate change is their fault.

Otherwise how can the UN proceed with the 2015 implementation of "Universal Carbunism" via the UN Agenda 21 - the Plan for Sustainable Development in the 21st century? When the facts patently don't fit the "science", yet you still hear only the shrill shrieks of the alarmists from all forms of the media. "The answer is politics."
- E Morgan, Whangarei

They broke law

Re: The headlines "Closures hard going for accused".

After reading the article twice I was somewhat taken aback that here we are once again pandering to the crims (accused).

How sad that they have to make their own way home. They are/were in that situation for one reason.

They broke the law in some way or an other. It was their own doing that put them were they are. Had they not broken any laws, maybe broke in to some innocent person's house for one reason "to steal" then they, too, would be at home with family over the Christmas and New Year period.

I would have loved to have spent some time of the Christmas period with my grandson.

Sadly, I couldn't as he is living in Christchurch. And I didn't break any laws to keep us apart. Not once did your article say that Mr Puriri or Ms Ellis say they felt for the victims in any way.

Having been on the receiving end of three thefts and burglaries over two years around 20 years ago, I too, felt aggrieved even then that everything was to pander to the criminal not the victim. Time has maybe starting to change things.

Once again, I say it has been their own doing.

The old saying comes to mind. Do the crime then do the time. Whether it be waiting for a court day in the cell or make your own way home.
- Rick Tunstall (Shaggy), Whangarei

My mistake

I wonder how many people actually noticed the mistake I made in my previous letter.

There was a description of plastic rubbish on the beach ending up inside a whale's stomach. I called the rubbish "prurient exudate" of a materialistic culture.

The correct lexical choice should have been "purulent" which means of or containing pus. I sincerely apologise to the Advocate reading public if I offended even one individual by suggesting that we are "prurient" beings, ie, excessively interested in sexual matters.
- Anthony Warren, Whangarei