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Tremors resulted from letter about volcanoes

Dear editor, My letter about the volcanoes seems to have caused some cerebral activity.

Dear editor,

My letter about the volcanoes seems to have caused some cerebral activity.

The gentleman by the name of Keith Porteous wrote a reasonable letter but then spoilt it my making unreasonable assumptions. The other person, Chris Wulff, I will not dignify with the appellation of gentleman when he needed to be abusive to try and get his point across.

The theories I quoted were not mine. I was quoting from an article that was published in the London (U.K.) Daily Express, extracted into the International Express, which is sold in the Valley.

I would think that a newspaper with the status of the Daily Express would have made some investigation into the theories of the author and ascertained there was merit in them before going into print.

The article was written by Prof. Ian Plimer, a member of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, (Australia), also a joint member of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering. Qualifications that I am sure allow him to express his theories with a considerable degree of confidence.

One of his statements is that governments have changed from "global warming" to "climate change," because the planet has cooled by 0.7 degrees in the past century despite years of dire predictions and this change still allows them to impose upon us whopping carbon taxes.

I agree there is no conspiracy; that was a red herring to attract attention.

As for Wulff's statement that volcanoes produce less than one per cent of atmospheric pollution, in other words man produces over 99 per cent, I find that ludicrous after reading Prof. Plimer's article.

John Butler,

Courtenay