Scaremonger talk
Mr Levins asserts that Zanetti was making fun of or having a tilt at Tim Flannery and climate change, or is it global warming?
The point of Mr Zanetti's cartoon was nothing to do with climate change at all, it was to do with the fact that on February 11, 2007 Mr Flannery made the following statement on Landline on the ABC.
"So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that's a real worry for the people in the bush. If that trend continues then I think we're going to have serious problems, particularly for irrigation."
As a consequence of statements such as this, his and other climate change scaremongers caused state governments to build the white elephants known as desalination plants.
The funds used to build these white elephants could have been used elsewhere. Think of where $10 billion over 50 years could be better used.
Last but not least, Warragamba dam currently stands at 92.4 per cent of capacity and Woronora dam is at 99.7 per cent capacity.
Sid Bream, Cronulla
If Zanetti, your cartoonist, thinks that a few days of rain is enough to refute the work of Professor Tim Flannery (Your View, April 28) then he is misinformed.
Warmer weather means more evaporation which means more rain. For those who argue that the Earth is not warming I suggest a simple experiment.
Half fill a glass with water, drop some ice in and measure the temperature. It will not begin to warm up until the ice is gone. Then what will happen?
Michael Harrington, Bonnet Bay
