David is filling his time with the ducks

Mark

but wish him all the best in his new chapter of life - with plenty of time to tend to his ducks. Dr Shreeragh Sagar bought the practice three years ago and is now seeing David’s patients.

Cancelling the good guys

I just picked up the latest GC News (April 28) and was stunned to see the article about Clayton Greening. Two complaints and he has been asked to move on twice.

This is a bit rich coming from a council that gets it contractors to spray pesticide all over the hinterland with hardly any of them wearing face masks.

Talk about polluting the waterways and the water table as well. It is extremely carcinogenic to boot. We really need to get seriously concerned about this and the council needs to set an example. No more excuses thank you. I will miss Clayton as he was always kind and friendly to all the people using the IGA parking area.

Bob McAusland, Witta

Don’t glorify war

Many thanks to The Caloundra Curmudgeon for his insight into the futility of WW1 (GC News, May 2).

Australia has been involved in other, equally pointless conflicts as well.

The Vietnam war and the Afghanistan imbroglio could serve as warnings.

During the Vietnam war, Australia lost 500+ young service people, only to see the Americans shrug their shoulders at their own stupidity and pull out.

The British could never invade Afghanistan and the Soviet Union was tossed out of the place in the 1980s. Yet the Americans and others saw fit to have a fling at their own special glory.

Once again, an unmitigated disaster occurred as they pulled out. Around 40+ plus young Australians lost their lives in this farce of a war.

Remembrance is the core of Anzac, I think, and Kipling’s Recessional says it all. Lest we forget. Remember the death toll of WW1, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the like. Lives pointlessly lost or blighted, and Australia the poorer for it.

There’s no pride to be had in all this Pride implies an exultation in war.

War is not to be glorified; it is a sewer. Humankind at its worst.

However, I chafe under a flag with a Union Jack on it (that has served us well but is a mere colonial ensign) and I chafe under a head of state who is an ageing Anglo-German billionaire celebrity aristocrat and not one of our own. I long for an Australian republic.

Now is a ripe time to grow up and claim our own distinctive place on the planet. I, for one, will be swearing allegiance to my country. The one our First Nations countrymen have been trying for the past 10 generations to teach us to love in the way they do, and to which we can only say yes. My allegiance next Saturday is to this Commonwealth of Australia.

It’s in the name.”

Fair dinkum nonsense

Recently there has been much debate regarding the impact of the Hub upon the community of Beerwah.

No new shopping centres were needed etc. now we are informed 42,000 new residents will be here by 2041.

To the mayor and councillors I put this question is the problem of futuristic planning not yours, is your position only to take from the trough as much as possible then skedaddle as they once said.

Ken Dyer, Landsborough

Maintaining cult fantasy

In a recent edition of the paper I stated the following-

A Recent Rasmussen Poll in the USA has found that 60% percent of voters now believe that the Climate Change agenda is more about religious fervor (ie- A cult mentality) Exercising dominance and control over the population and nothing to do with the climate.

If anyone thought that it was anything other than religious fervor and dominance of the population all they had to do was take a look at the response to my correspondence from one of the the local mouth pieces for the “Climate Change Cult”. This person was not even attacking me they were attacking my stats as stated by Rasmussen in regards the USA population for daring not to tow the line with the “Global Warming Scam” indoctrination.

Some examples of this desperation and attempts to justify their argument and discredit the facts from the survey were as follows-

• Trumps lies about the 2020 election

• Aliens have visited earth

• the earth is only 6000 years old and not 4500 000 000 years old.

• 40 % think evolution is not true

The situation of Beerwah at the moment is bad enough regarding water, transport,education,medical positions etc yet we hear nought from the well endorsed what what the future holds from the mayor and councillors of the present.

As my dear old Dad said show me a fair dinkum council and I’ll show you the true meaning of Honesty.

The

Poddydodger

Source of the poison

I notice two or three contributors to the letters’ page use it as a forum for exhibiting their knowledge/internet research skills and to criticise each other. I read these letters with some bemusement but one or two letter writers take umbrage. There may be a solution: before reading a letter check the name of the author and if you’re not interested don’t read it.

Some of the presumably internet sourced writings I find somewhat discombobulating but I suspect there may be too many people on our overstretched planet. The human race is too successful. Our resources are perhaps being overconsumed and we are outstripping our ingenuity to provide a comfortable life for our offspring into the future. I’d like to set an example and unburden our planet of my admittedly modest lifestyle but so far I haven’t been approached with an offer from inhabitants of any other planet.

scientists have found more evidence that our human 5 % of all natural atmospheric CO² emissions is causing little global warming and UAH satellite data shows that global average temperatures have only warmed 0.61 degrees C since 1944 which is half of the IPCC’s climate model predictions. From 1944 global temperatures moved up and down until 1987 when they Jumped up +0.17 degrees C. They again shifted up and down to 1997 when they stepped up +0.21 degrees C and then fluctuated until 2015 when they quickly rose +0.23 degrees C and alternated up and down to the present day. Each of these sudden jumps in temperature coincided with very strong Pacific Ocean EL Niño warming events in 1987, 1997/98 and 2015/16.

Our oceans which contain 1000 times more heat than the atmosphere control our climate and particularly the huge Pacific Ocean. From 1987 to 2015 fossil fuel CO² emissions increased by 46.3% yet there was no warming for 18 years. If human CO² causes warming why did it take so long?

Since 1979 when accurate UAH satellite measurement began, global average temperatures have increased by 0.13 degrees C per decade.

The slow warming of our oceans is not caused by CO² gas. It is very likely that underwater geothermal activity is the cause and recently 19,000 seamounts or underwater volcanos have been discovered to go with the 24,000 seamounts we already knew about. Scientists should be looking for the active volcanos and assessing their effect on ocean temperatures.

Sel Hopley, Maleny

Too little, too late?

Now that the Sunshine Coast Council has acknowledged that we are experiencing a global climate emergency, I ask about what leadership is being shown to advocate for and to support community mitigation actions?

Beerwah Swear allegiance to who?

Peter Slade,

I thank Mr Jim McMillan of Kensington for the words that I agree with.

“It seems to me that the monarchy fits the British like an old warm overcoat. Let them enjoy their grand coronation next Saturday. I wish them well.

I am old enough to have lived in the reign of three British monarchs. I was born into White Australia and the ″cultural cringe″ but I will die in a nation with hybrid virility where less than half the population claim northern European ancestry, and a third have roots in Asia, Africa or the Americas.

Of my heritage, I feel most deeply second generation Australian, while being proud of my English forebears. I reject none of the past but ache to embrace a braver future. I am proud that we Australians have a distinctive national dialect of English and a recognisably distinct national anthem. I am happy we are a nation within that other commonwealth of nations; a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition.

It just goes to show how desperate these individuals are to maintain their “Cult” at all cost mentality and try and throw anything at anyone who dares to speak against them.

Shane Daly, Peachester

Ian

Pollock,

Witta Staying positive

JW on 25 April suggested that there are too many negative letters and we should focus on positive topics so here is some good news on climate. Independent

Noting that the SCC have declared that their target is for them to be operating at net zero emissions by 2041. And, that they have published a strategy for their operations to enable this transition. However, I question why the target cannot be much sooner, e.g. 2030-35? And, why by 2041 the target is net zero greenhouse gas emissions, rather then zero emissions?

In regards to advocating for and supporting community mitigation actions, I’m wondering if we will see in our region’s new housing estates, currently being developed, space allocated for community batteries and for other shared renewable energy infrastructure. Even other positive Council initiatives such as, offering incentives for electrifying new houses, and for retrofitting for total electrification of

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