I want to admit that my last statement is incorrect before anyone else points out my hypocrisy. I have on several occasions said things which were deliberately offensive, but these instances occurred when I was either attacked first or found the article itself offensive.

Armchair critic wrote on Friday, 21 August 2015 12:18:30 AM :

"[On] your Mission Statement on the 'About' page (https://candobetter.net/about/) where you mentioned - '...turn back from the brink of the looming global environmental catastrophe which threatens our survival.'

"- And it just 'smelled' like one of these 'progressive' websites using climate change to push a globalist agenda."

I take no offence. I myself have been taken in more than once by 'progressives', 'socialists' and 'environmentalists' being quite different what they claimed to be, so of course I don't expect anyone who doesn't know me to accept what I write on trust alone.

Armchair critic,

What you posted to "Beware! The crisis is coming!" at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=17599&page=0#311210 is wrong according to the evidence of which I am aware. For all of Alex Jones' merit (and he has interviewed the Syrian Girl on more than one occasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI1AAasWNpM ) he is badly mistaken about climate change.

In my previous post, on 19 August 2015 11:56:00 PM, I wrote I was uncertain about whether the earth would warm up, cool down or remain stable if we continued to dig up and burn our fossil fuels at the rate we are now doing.

Having looked at the blog posts of Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists at http://blog.ucsusa.org/author/brenda-ekwurzel I now have little doubt that the world is getting warmer.

Whilst this is cause for alarm it is not cause for despair.

If between 1939 and 1945 humanity was able to defeat the threat posed by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, then surely in the 21st century we should be able to prevent global warming for a fraction of the expense and without all the terrible sacrifice?