Ralph Smeding PEng., makes some good points and sound arguments in criticizing a recent letter on climate change, but he generously overlooked some important weaknesses.
Ralph Smeding PEng., makes some good points and sound arguments in criticizing a recent letter on climate change, but he generously overlooked some important weaknesses.
It is simply literarily unforgivable to use the words "monstrous" and "stupendous" in most contexts: these are trite and almost, well, childishly alarmist. I can only assume the issue has taken on a disproportionate urgency in the writer's mind such as to overtake good taste. Perhaps this lapse was brought on by the newly acquired knowledge that the temperature in the Antarctic Peninsula has increased 10 C degrees in 50 years?
Again, as he implies, there are stats and stats: what's a 10 C degree rise in an area that averages -50C, I ask you?
Anyway, panic is undignified as that great, God-fearing, anti-climate changer proponent Ann Coulter has it: "We should use up this planet completely and as fast as possible, and when it is toast, God will give us another one!"
So wise, and anyway, "science" tells us this has all happened before – and we weren't even there!!!
Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert
