Climate change is a fact, but the reasons for it are still up in the air

FOLLOWING my column two weeks ago, it was suggested that I was attacking Green Party policies and somehow suggesting there was no basis for conservation, recycling or cleaning up our air and water, and it was even said that I was suggesting that global warming is nonsense.

Global warming is a fact. It will undoubtedly lead to a rise in sea levels and some flooding could result, but the 20-foot rise predicted by Al Gore is a hysterical figment of the imagination of a failed politician.

Even the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — which sparked much of the hysteria with its doctored report in 1996 — predicted just a 36-inch rise in the sea levels by the end of this century. It has since cut that prediction by more than half to 17 inches.