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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
On Señor Bergoglio’s passing.
He did some good things, except for his pontificating on the Catholic Church abuse crisis. He apologised, asked for forgiveness and promised change. He had the power to introduce effective reforms, he didn’t.
And then there’s his belief in open borders.
His push on ‘vaccines’ was and is hardest to forgive for this Catholic, as well as his endorsement of shutting churches, quite in opposition of our Lord’s appearance after the resurrection and telling the disciples, who were hiding in the dark, to get out there.
David Lawrenson
Climate debates lack scientific rigour
Dear Editor
It struck me recently that, whenever there’s a television (even on GB news) debate on, the subject of it usually involves a ‘climate scientist’ pitted against an economist or commentator, i.e. not from the scientific community. This unfairly skews the debate from the start, as the non-scientist may lack the training in scientific rigour and methodology.
A fundamental premise of doing good science is the use of null hypothesis. This is never mentioned in TV debates. For a comprehensive explanation of this, there’s nothing better than Norman Fenton’s brilliant recent article in TCW. It’s heavy going, but worth it. To summarise, it says that you assume the data obtained from experimental observation does not support the rationale for the experiment, in this case warming being due to mankind. Subsequently, the data is analysed statistically. The result of this supports or doesn’t support the theory under investigation.
When the climate alarm camp first started to gain traction in the early nineties, Western governments handed out research grants like confetti to anyone wanting to call themselves a ‘climate scientist’ to look for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), with the promise of more money if they thought they’d found it. This is confirmation bias, not null hypothesis.
Seeing as there’s a growing band (about 2000) of eminent scientists calling themselves the climate declaration (including John F. Clauser, Nobel Prize for Physics winner in 2022) who believe that even if AGW was proven, it would not be sufficiently significant to justify going back to medieval living necessary to achieve Net Zero, it’s a duty of responsible media to ensure the public get a properly conducted and informed debate.
I recall a recent discussion on GB News, in which their own science correspondent quoted a figure supplied by Friends of the Earth for not going to Net Zero. No further scrutiny, other than this, was based on projections of future ‘extreme weather events’, leading to higher food prices, loss of property, etc. These so-called events are no more prevalent (Ref: Paul Homewood TCW articles, using the Met Office’s own data) than 100 years ago. The cost of going to Net Zero, in addition to being much more quantifiable in monetary terms, will impact the poorest in society the most.
In conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to a quote directly from Friends of the Earth: ‘A climate response change must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources’. It can be inferred that the aim of this organisation is political, and nothing to do with saving the planet from an alleged climate crisis
David Hulland
Climate Armageddon? Don’t be daft!
Dear Editor
With weather forecasts already homing in on the possibility of warmer weather next week, perhaps I could bring to readers’ attention that the extent of ice in the north polar regions is not declining as fast as would be considered normal for this time of year. The graph below, obtained from the NASA daily satellite website, shows that since the ice reached its maximum as usual around the equinox in late March, it has effectively flat-lined until now (April 22).
In terms of areas affected, ice covers most of the Arctic Ocean north and east of Spitsbergen, the northern Canadian Archipelago, and the Bering Strait. Hudson’s Bay is entirely ice-covered, and ice extends down much of the east coast of Greenland. The map of ice-extent is reproduced below. A look at satellite imagery today shows that surface temperatures over much of Canada and Siberia as being below zero. Temperatures over Greenland are as low a -36°C; the north polar areas are certainly far from warm! What this means for the UK is that there are still large areas that can provide winds from north-west round to east that will be cold.
Lately, and at present, we have had a somewhat quiet spell of weather, but when atmospheric conditions change to allow the west to east track of mid-latitude depressions from the Atlantic to re-establish, the contrast between tropical and polar air could be well-marked in terms of both temperature and moisture, whilst some violent weather (e.g. tornadoes in the southern USA) and active North Atlantic depressions will be a likely result.
This will bring about the inevitable outcry of global warming and climate change, but the conditions only reflect the usual seasonal variability. Of course, the MSM reporting and the biased slant provided by government weather services will not mention such inconvenient truths, and the Net Zero juggernaut will continue.
James Dent
Suffolk
Knife-wielding criminals no longer fear arrest
Dear Editor
Reports on TV and the headlines in the press show that our UK and Scottish politicians, police and judiciary system are out-of-touch with reality:
‘Man stabbed in Edinburgh Street”
‘Unprovoked gang attack on teens’
‘Man charged over alleged stabbing’
‘Police appeal over targeted attacks in Glasgow area’
‘Masked quad-bike riders churning up parks and golf courses in Edinburgh’
‘E-scooters, e-bikes and quad bikes have been terrorising the public in parks’
It is obvious that these people have no fear of the law and that if Police Scotland catch them, the Scottish judiciary will only give them a warning. Back in the Fifties, Glasgow was in the grip of razor gangs when Lord John Carmont decided to do something about it. His answer to the wave of knifings was to simply give ten to 20 years of jail time to anyone found carrying a knife or razor. Knife crime stopped. The out-of-touch Scottish government must tell the out-of-touch Police chief Jo Farrell to arrest these people and ensure our out-of-touch judges impose significant jail time that will deter future criminal behaviour.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
Hereford’s issue with ‘herd immunity’
Dear Editor
Your repeat of Will Jones’s article on Monday reminded me of my own comment sent to The Herefordshire Times a year later in May 2021:
‘While the great affairs of the world daily parade before us, there is for me one continuing irritation that 15 months or more have failed to assuage: namely, the risible term “herd-immunity”! Having been involved with scientists for 60-plus years, I am only too aware that some very clever people believe that they also have a sense of humour. Not so!
‘I was born in Herefordshire, just before the war. There were lots of our famous white-faced cattle; in fact, there were herds of them! Not so many people, townsfolk or villagers, so we had little personal use for a collective noun. Had we had really pondered away, I think “community” may have got the headmaster’s approval, if nobody else’s.
‘So, in this light, may I have the temerity to correct the great and famous, suggesting that “herd immunity” be replaced immediately by “co-immunity”, a neat contraction of “community immunity”. The prior term be reserved to the rightful owners, those Herefords.’
Rod Packwood
