Don't pretend it's not happening

Climate change is not hype (Tim Bard, Peninsula News forum, January 25).

The real "hype" about climate change is the idea that there is growing scientific doubt about climate change.

This is plain wrong.

Thousands of research papers are published in reputable scientific journals every year, and not one, to my knowledge, disputes man-made climate change is real.

Not one.

These scientists are not greenies or lefties.

They are respectable scientists from the world's leading academic and research institutions.

Should we believe these scientists or a US television weatherman?

Surely that's a no-brainer.

The balance of scientific probability is now overwhelming.

The past decade was the hottest on record worldwide and in Australia.

Ice-sheets, glaciers and sea-ice are melting everywhere.

The evidence of global warming is everywhere.

We can prevent climate change.

But the first step is to stop behaving like children, pretending it's not happening because we don't like it.

We need to grow up and accept it's a real problem that needs urgent action.

Email, 8 Feb 2010 Mark Mann, Peninsula Environment Group