Dear Sir,
I was interested to read J D Clare’s article on climate change from Friday 9th October. I would like to respond if I may?
I bow to his literary skills, learning and research. I am an old man with secondary modern education, what I lack in academia, I hope is compensated with common sense. Unlike he, I live by the motto nullius inverba (never take another’s word for it, figure it out for yourself).
Climate change started around 13,000 years ago. No one is pointing the finger at Fred Flintstone being the cause of it. I believe our earth’s ever changing climate is due to having periodic wobbles during our orbits of the sun. Nothing is constant! Hence the weather man does his best to predict if you need a brolly!
Climate change hysteria was concocted from minute temporary changes, blown out of all proportion and deemed it must be man’s own doing, without one iota of proof.
Mr Clare quoted Genesis 2, “The Lord God made man and put him in the garden of Eden”. Genesis 1 raises a question, God didn’t just make man, to quote the bible, “Then God said and now we will make human beings, they will be like us and resemble us”. Genesis 6, in those days there were giants on earth who were descendants of human women and heavenly beings.
Everything that God created when he built the earth is still here, he never claimed to make dinosaurs. My reckoning is God did his thing three to four thousand years ago. He had a mobile tabernacle that had beautiful cast bronze feet. God commented on having expert metalworks. The Hittite tribe also had iron chariots. God was a warrior with Joshua’s help he sacked fifty one walled cities and slew every man, woman and child. Joshua won the battle of Jerico and the walls came tumbling down. With his crucifixion Jesus became the son the father and the holy ghost? Christianity was born, now God was all about love.
Most people in Britain hadn’t heard of Christianity until around 500AD and quickly spread. I believe the world would be a better place if we were all ‘believers’, likewise, if we were all pollution conscious. Anyone pushing the extinction now theory is spreading hysteria with millions of youngsters worrying of no hope for the future.
Rising sea levels is probably caused by coastal erosion and rivers worldwide deposit silt in the sea. Bearing in mind the Dutch don’t panic and much of their land is below sea level.
Planet earth will be around for millions of more years, long after man has plundered its resources and colonised other earths. There can only be one God. The Sun, should the sun fail, all Gods, all religions, all mankind would fail, the temperatures would plummet even if we were knee deep in carbon.
We are told the planet is in peril because there are less newts, etc., the clue is the human race is expanding, I am not a Christian or a sun worshipper, we are here and have to live together, telling people to prepare to meet doom can’t be a good idea.
F. Farrell
