Science isn’t everything
It seems Rebecca Campbell (“Not everyone's an expert”, The Border Mail, August 18) only believes everything she hears from a scientist and nobody else's opinion should be entertained or even listened to?
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Well I disagree. I am not a climate change denier but certainly a sceptic. Professor Tim Flannery (a scientist) loudly proclaimed woe and pestilence upon the world due to dams drying out, rising sea levels, global warming and a host of other “scientific” alarmist claims recently. None of them have come to pass and often the opposite has occurred. So much for believing “scientific facts”.
Rebecca would benefit from opening her mind to “lay persons’” opinions and their plausible alternatives and conclusions.
She may be surprised to learn of considerable academic and scientific data fraud in the global environmental scene where there is big money to be made from scientific “proof” of global warming, yes, even from scientists.
Let's not forget Al Gore's dubious predictions in 2006 in An Inconvenient Truth and that even scientific opinion and proof is hotly divided among the scientific community on the subject of why there is (and has been since the earth was formed) climate change.
One does not need to be a scientist to develop an informed view on climate change because it is a readily observable fact that change occurs but the critical point is whether it is man made.
George Krooglik, Albury
Be thankful for access
We are amazed that your paper would even print a story about residents wanting access to private property (“Residents request passage”, The Border Mail, August 18).
How nice to be able to use private property owned by someone else for so many years.
However, when the rightful owner decides to build on their land, the access is, naturally, no longer available.
The user should be thankful that he/she was able to access someone else's private property for the time that they had.
We wonder if Bob Steer would allow our friends who live in his neighbourhood to take a shortcut down his driveway to walk through his back yard and out of his back fence access to come and go into Kensington Gardens.
M & J McGrath, Thurgoona
Service not good enough
Another outage from Telstra’s lousy mobile and internet service.
The CEO is paid a lot of money and should have a penalty imposed on his salary and resign if he cannot supply a decent service.
Yvonne Cugley, Jindera
Dan’s out of touch
The Victorian Premier “Dan the man” Andrews has rejected supporting legislation that would ban murderers from gaining parole unless they tell police where the body is.
It seems he can't touch anything without ruining it so I say to him, “take your little shovel and bucket, get out of the sandpit and go home and let the adults deal with it”.
B Scott-Young, East Albury
Back Australian goods
So, what about all the stores in Albury-Wodonga setting aside a special place for Australian-made, Australian-owned (or both) in their shops?
This would encourage people to do their bit to keep Australians employed by buying our goods and also would be a boost for shop owners.
The mark up wouldn’t be so great, but it would be great for Australia and future generations. Dick Smith is a great Australian – we have to help him.
Doreen Spalding, Albury
Letter of the week
This week’s winner is Ian Ashton, of Wangaratta. Collect your prize at The Border Mail office, 1 McKoy St, Wodonga.