DEAR News Of The Area,
Micheal De Mol is premature in attributing the recent extreme weather events to climate change (NOTA 12/9/25).
It appears that he, like many others, does not understand what climate is.
It is the average weather over at least three decades.
Climate is what you expect, while weather is what you get.
For those events to be attributed to climate change they would have to have occurred repeatedly over decades, not just one or two years.
Until such time there is no evidence to support the claim that they were the result of climate change and such claims are mere speculation.
It is not unusual to get the occasional extreme weather event.
His assertion that the average temperature has been increasing since 1910 does not provide the full story.
Further details provide a clearer picture.
Following the end of “the Little Ice Age” in 1850, the average temperature rose until 1880 and then decreased until 1910.
It then rose again until 1940 from which time it decreased again until 1976, prompting predictions of a coming ice age.
The temperature then rose again until 1998 when it pretty much stabilised.
During this whole-time atmospheric CO2 rose steadily showing no correlation with the fluctuations in the average temperature.
It should also be noted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that only three percent of emissions are the result of human activity.
The other 97 percent are natural.
Australia’s contribution is just one percent of the three percent, which is so minuscule that it would have no impact on the climate.
It is time to stop the scaremongering.
Regards,
Wayne DUESBURY,
Boambee.
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