I write in response Alan Barron’s say in the Independent (Climate debate welcomed, 17 October).
The gas companies have caused the tripling in our gas prices, which flows though to power prices, not renewable energy generators
Global warming has been caused by increasing C02 levels in the atmosphere to over 400ppMln, is a simple matter of physics. In layman’s terms, light passing through the the atmosphere from the sun or reflecting from the earth, constantly hit the C02 atoms in the atmosphere, causing them to act like little bar heaters, and heat the atmosphere around them. We have doubled the number of C02 bar heaters. As a consequence the atmosphere holds more water, so it rains less, causing droughts, and bush fires, but when it does finally rain, it buckets, causing floods. Also as the oceans heat up faster than the land we get more nasty winds and cyclones.
These consequences are bad enough, but the alarmist predictions don’t happen until we pass 5 degrees global warming and are yet to come. For example the Eastern Antarctic ice shelf is predicted to melt, and lift the world’s ocean levels by 5 metres The consequences we are seeing so far are only the warning light from the train at the end of the tunnel that is racing towards us.
Andrew Morris, Geelong West
