A letter to the Star in reply to Gary Speck It is a shame that Gary Speck of Millhouses does not recognise that Extinction Rebellion supporters may also currently be mourning the loss of loved ones, be risking their lives in front line jobs or wondering if they will still have a job when theContinueContinue reading “Bail out the planet”
Category Archives: Sheffield Star Letters
An open letter to the Sheffield Star. Time to take editorial control.
You must start exercising some editorial control over your letters page. Nearly every day you print yet another epistle from Neville Martin containing dangerous and extreme anti-science propaganda. His latest effort is a classic. He quotes the thoroughly debunked article “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” by Arthur B Robinson which he claims isContinueContinue reading “An open letter to the Sheffield Star. Time to take editorial control.”
Electric cars are not the answer
Climate change denier, conspiracy theorist and religious fundamentalist Neville Martin has, at last, made a sensible point! It is crazy to expect that we can replace all our petrol and diesel cars with electrics. For a start there just isn’t enough cobalt, lithium and nickel to build all the new batteries. The mining of theseContinueContinue reading “Electric cars are not the answer”
Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheating planet.
31st July 2019 Dear Editor Your front page on 26th July celebrated the hottest temperature recorded in Sheffield since 1882. It was treated as if 35.1 degrees C was to be warmly welcomed. It is in fact a dire warning of what is to come. The Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheatingContinueContinue reading “Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheating planet.”
The Star must tell the truth about the Climate Emergency
Have you ever noticed a lump growing on your body? Maybe you’ve thought, it’s probably nothing, if I ignore it, it will go away. If you’ve been in that situation I sincerely hope you had a good friend who encouraged you to go to the doctors and get it checked out. Denial is a naturalContinueContinue reading “The Star must tell the truth about the Climate Emergency”
The Star has broken the readers charter
Our argument is not with Neville Martin, who is entitled to his misinformed view, but with the Sheffield Star for publishing such an outrageous headline. If a reader writes to you claiming measles jabs cause autism, will you make that your headline? If Benson Hedges writes to you saying smoking is good for health, willContinueContinue reading “The Star has broken the readers charter”
We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany
It was wonderful to see the Lancaster bomber fly over Sheffield. We need constant reminders of the sacrifices that both our armed forces and civilians made to ensure the defeat of the Nazis. But as well as looking back we also need to look to the future.We now face an existential threat bigger than NaziContinueContinue reading “We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany”
Sheffield should go Carbon Neutral by 2030
Sheffield Star 13th Feb 2019 Dear Editor At the Full Council meeting I presented a petition of over 400 names, collected in less than a week, calling on Sheffield to become carbon neutral by 2030. Climate change is now an emergency. The 2018 State of the Climate report says that the 20 warmest years onContinueContinue reading “Sheffield should go Carbon Neutral by 2030”
