LETTER: Climate change tops my list of voter concerns, too

DEAR News Of The Area,

MICHAEL Jones’s letter (‘Climate change should top list of voter concerns’, Coffs Coast News Of The Area, 14/8/26) says that climate change should top the list of voter concerns, and so it should.

We should be concerned with the billions, if not trillions, of dollars being wasted on the rush to net zero and renewable energy.

It should concern us all that industries are being destroyed because of the high cost of energy resulting from this push to replace cheap, reliable energy from fossil fuels with expensive solar and wind energy, and that prime farmland is being sacrificed. And for what?

Data shows that there is no correlation between increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature.

Over the last 170 years, since the end of the little ice age around 1850, there have been times when the world’s average temperature has declined, while the atmospheric carbon dioxide continued to increase to now being 0.043 per cent of the atmosphere, which is still close to the lowest it has ever been in the history of the planet and represents an increase of 142 parts per million (ppm).

Based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimate that only 3 per cent of emissions are from human activity. and Australia contributes 1.3 per cent to human emissions, our contribution is 0.05538 ppm or, in percentage terms, 0.000005538% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide.

And the government is spending billions of dollars to reduce this trivial amount, which will have no effect on the world’s climate.

Where is the sense in that?

Yes, voters should be concerned – not so much with climate change but with the destruction of our country this nonsensical ideology is causing.

Regards,

Wayne Duesbury,

Boambee.