Warm welcome
I am writing in response to John Hogg’s letter to the editor, Facility impacts neighbourhood, September 26.
My question to him is short and simple. I am curious to know if his opinion would change if it was a family with seven children and two parents who lived there as opposed to nine women?
For the men and women who make the journey to Powell River for a fresh start on life, I and the majority of Powell River welcome you.
Deb Paterson
Barnet Street
Alternative climate perspective
With regard to the letter to the editor, Climate change refugees, September 26, attribution of weather phenomena to anthropogenic global warming is a dodgy business. The journal Nature, in its September issue, warns against this sort of speculation. At present climate modelling is not up to the challenge.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has now identified an Arctic cyclone as the culprit for the ice breakup. Also into this mix is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Melting of Arctic ice is a cyclic phenomenon.
There is nothing new in the Arctic nor in Greenland. Greenland was warmer during the Viking settlement, but that eventually failed because of climate change--it cooled.
In order to speculate then, what if we get another Carrington class solar event cooling the earth three degrees Celsius?
Whatever one believes, the fact that the Antarctic ice mass is expanding to record proportions at the same time the Arctic ice mass is shrinking is something to think about.
Global warming is a saviour not a culprit, otherwise we would still be in the ice age.
Ted Cooper
Massett Court
