Briony Penn does not use one single fact to back up her opinion piece (Nov. 18) that human industry is responsible for climate change. 

Instead, she goes on the attack by claiming skeptics are preaching the “gospel of uncertainty” and promoting the “deadly game of climate change denial.”

The University of Melbourne has recently published a report in Science, stating that the real driver of climate change is the wobble of the earth’s axis. Greenhouse gases are the effect, not the cause, of global warming. 

Carbon dioxide is just .038 percent of the total atmosphere. Water vapour is by far the largest greenhouse gas (and keeps the planet from freezing).

Far from being a skeptic of climate change, I am a strong believer in the natural cycle of both warming and cooling over the ages. I don’t know enough about solar cycles to comment, but I do believe that Mars has also gone through periods of climate change as well. Suffice to say, nature will continue to change the weather!

I am sure that everyone can recall learning in elementary school that the tilt of the axis gives us summer and winter.

Over a roughly 26,000-year cycle, the wobble affects climate change all year round.

I also believe the environmental movement has been captured by far-left radicals who want to transfer wealth (so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation and carbon taxes) from the wealthy nations to the less developed ones.

There is nothing wrong with helping the poor, of course, but slowing economic growth in North America and Europe won’t help anyone.

President Obama has made outrageous comments about raising the price of electric power at a time when U.S. unemployment rates are over 10 per cent, but he doesn’t seem to be in a hurry (thank God) to sign the International Treaty on Climate Change in Copenhagen.

I have read two studies that confirm that carbon dioxide levels drop when the earth cools (the first is the Lake Vostok Ice Core Sample Study).

Does anyone honestly believe human beings caused the last ice age which ended about 18,000 years ago? 

And does anyone deny that between ice ages the earth also experiences tropical epochs?

Finally, there is this article from the University of Melbourne, from a study published in the journal of Science: http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/n-119

Don’t be a wobble-denier! The earth is not flat, Briony.

Peter Ramsey,

Trincomali Heights