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Your letters: Cold is the killer

In testimony to the US Senate in February 2014, Patrick Moore, ecologist and cofounder of Greenpeace, made two significant points on climate change

The Jakarta Post
Wed, March 26, 2014

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Your letters: Cold is the killer

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n testimony to the US Senate in February 2014, Patrick Moore, ecologist and cofounder of Greenpeace, made two significant points on climate change. First: '€œWhen modern life evolved over 500 million years ago, CO2 was more than 10 times higher than today, yet life flourished.'€

Second: '€œHumans are a tropical species. We evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing and housing'€. Ice ages extinguish most life. Even a slight reduction in surface temperature would turn the northern grain fields of Canada, China, Russia and Europe into frigid deserts. And millions of humans and animals would starve. We are fortunate to live in a naturally warm interlude after the recurring ice ages of the Pleistocene Era.

The modern warming has evaporated moisture and discharged carbon dioxide from the oceans. This increase in atmospheric plant nutrients has increased crop yields and caused widespread greening of the planet that can be detected by satellite.

These benefits for the biosphere are ignored by climate alarmists. Cold eras are remembered for bitter storms, starvation, migrations and wars.

The next natural climate change is likely to see the ice returning. Everyone except penguins and polar bears should '€œwelcome the warmth'€. Cold is the killer.

Viv Forbes

Queensland, Australia

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