Letter to the Editor: Climate change argument hard to understand

DEAR News Of The Area,

IN response to the letter published on Friday 17 October by Peter Flinn.

He says “climate change has been blamed for the rising frequency and intensity of bushfires” and then spends nearly a full column avoiding answering or addressing that statement.

His argument centres around the subject of fuel loads but does not in any way address his first assertion.

While no particular event can be attributed to climate change, the scientifically proven facts are that if the parameters i.e. climate change are taken into account, then the increasing occurrence and severity of bushfires is a given.

I fail to see what his argument is, but note that it will give encouragement to the denialists who are too lazy or uncaring to actually dissect the points made.

Regards,
Bill ROBINSON,
Coffs Coast.