News Weekly publishes our letter

So, my letter to News Weekly got published. Read our post here.

Unfortunately, Mr Westmore does a very good job at failing to address my central point re: the use of statistics in the proper fashion.

He also mentions two Danish physicists. Quelle horreure! TWO!! Well ok, he does mention 31,000 thousand more (source, please), but my point remains.

Andrew Glickson - Earth paleo-climate scientist at the ANU - has written this article here which pretty much refutes Westmore's claims. I could link hundreds more articles, but I won't. They're pretty easy to find.

Besides, plenty of people thought the Earth was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth. Hmm, that old chestnut. A prescient quote from John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"

He also missed my point that if he didn't wish people to link Arctic Ice Levels to his article, or to the point of it, perhaps using those on the front cover with "Global Cooling?" wasn't the smartest move. Readers making links between headings and images.

He also makes the emotional connection between the poor and the current efforts to mitigate carbon pollution; a long, long bow to draw. If we don't act on this long term issue, there might not be any poor. There might no be any anyone. And despite what we do, there'll probably always be rich, and always be poor. As long as there's a power dynamic in the world this will most likely exist.

So to say we should be focusing on the poor instead of the environment, that's a poor argument. How about we do both?