CLIMATE OF CHANGE
I am amazed that some correspondents (Illawarra Mercury, May 25) assume because most Australians took the money not the box at the election, that somehow this means the climate crisis is not real.
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With a blanket of carbon in the sky now 40 per cent thicker than it's been since way before humans were around, we are starting to slowly fry.
The evidence is absolutely clear (the best scientists from every nation on Earth agree completely on this) yet these older and 'wiser' correspondents expect our children (who will be far more impacted than we) to placidly ignore it.
Perhaps some of the adults in this world would do well to go back to school themselves and stop believing just what they choose from the wide variety of facts and fiction in the media.
Thomas Hunt BSc, Oak Flats
PAYING THE PENALTY
New research just released by Macquarie and Wollongong university economists, after two years of penalty rate cuts no extra jobs have been created. Not one.
Their research revealed that penalty rate cuts mounted by employer groups and cheered on by Liberal/National parties have been nothing more than a viscous attack on low paid workers and the attacks keep coming from the ruthless restaurant and caterers group.
They are fighting for all penalty rates to cease immediately and pay their workers a flat rate across seven days a week.
You really wonder with nervousness what industry will be next.
Matty Ryan, Fairy Meadow
BLAME THE DRIVERS
I have travelled the Picton Road every day for the past 10 years and there is nothing wrong with the road.
If drivers drove to the conditions at all times the accident rate would drop dramatically.
Drivers speeding or driving drug affected have nothing whatsoever to do with the road as such.
Lay the blame where it belongs, with drivers.
Terry Coltman, Farmborough Heights
MEASURING UP
A very regular correspondent to letters page recently made a statement that "expert" advice he received had put the global CO2 level at 4 per cent.
Having religiously followed this topic for several decades I am yet to hear of any person claiming such a misleading value.
It is known that levels of this value would have most of us in a toxicological state of impaired consciousness and yes, I am referring to CO2 not CO.
CO2 is measured and expressed in parts per million (ppm) and recent concentrations of 414ppm have sadly been recorded.
The global average, measured at over 60 stations around the globe and also on surface vessels and by several satellites, was 406ppm for 2017. 414ppm converts to 0.0414%, a value far away from the 4% or 40,000ppm that was stated.
Frank Booth, Mt Keira
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