YOU SAY: Border Mail letters to the editor
Reality will bite
March 23 was global World Water Day. It's all about sharing and thinking about how we can manage fresh water resources. Surface water is declining. Farm dams are dry and our main water storages are down to 50 per cent, while the Darling River has stopped flowing. We may like to compare present situation to the Millennium Drought.
Climate scientists have long warned about a global warming tipping point when the planet reaches a threshold of irreversible climate change and the worst effects - extreme drought, sea level rise, monster wildfires and hurricanes become not the exception but the norm.
Some experts once projected such a threshold could happen in the 22nd century or beyond. But according to a raft of new studies, that tipping point could be as close as 40 years away.
The study suggests that land vegetation will actually be able to absorb carbon at an increasing rate for the next 40 years due to process known as carbon fertilization. The production of more CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the rate of plant photosynthesis, during which plants take up carbon; as a result the biosphere will uptake more and more carbon as human-produced emissions increase.
However the study's models project that the biospheres ability to do so peaks in 2060 and then starts to decline. From this we can see that sharing water resources will take a great deal of co-operation on a world-wide scale.
Rev Stewart Eiseman, Westmont Baranduda
Nothing short of criminal
The letter of David Corbett ('All about greed', March 23) shows how the medical specialists are artificially exploiting patients and the colleges that are responsible for accrediting them to create artificial shortages. I have relatives and friends in the medical field and the conduct of these colleges and their accreditation procedures are nothing short of criminal.
If there are 20 specialists in a field that are due to retire this year then the college accrediting them will only pass 20 this year. In this way there is a shortage and those specialists can charge their exorbitant fees but what you must bear in mind is that perhaps 100 doctors were examined and most if not all would pass if the accreditation system was fair. But they fail highly competent doctors to create a shortage.
What is the government doing about this fraudulent conduct?
Breck Scott-Young, Albury
Top marks for service
A big shout out to Tyrepower in North Albury. Last week I had a problem when I couldn't remove two of the metal tyre valve caps on my car. I went to these guys and they removed the caps, replaced all four with new rubber ones and put the correct pressures in all tyres. They would not accept payment for their time. I have never been to these guys before. Not bad eh. I took them back a box of beer for their trouble.
Chris Rourke, Lavington
Letters to the editor
You can submit a letter to the editor via the comments section of our website at www.bordermail.com.au, or by emailing letters@bordermail.com.au. Your letter must include your full name (for publication) as well as an address and phone number (not for publication).