I wasn't going to bother answering George Debono's remarks (The Sunday Times, December 20), mainly because, as we Maltese say, 'L-ikbar trux min ma jridx jisma' (even if the truth is self-evident, one continues to deny it). However, I decided to do so for your readers' benefit.

Regarding the "some" who oppose catastrophic climate change predictions and the "majority of scientists" he agrees with, I have to repeat that the "some" in fact are over 700 scientists and climate researchers from around the world, who last March updated a 2007 report which continued to debunk the supposed consensus on man-made global warming.

And does Dr Debono know how many were the "majority" scientists he sides with who authored the media-hyped UN-IPCC 2007 Report? Just 52, and now Climategate has completely discredited that report.

Has he ever heard of the Heidelberg Appeal, where over 400 scientists from 106 countries, among them 72 Nobel Prize winners, actually debunked man-made global warming?

Dr Debono's argument about climate change catastrophists' "scientifically calculated probabilities" is just another proof of his repugnance for the internet. Otherwise, how can he continue to completely ignore the Climategate scandal.

I invite him again to have courage and read the Science and Public Policy Institute paper "Caught Green-Handed" at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20climategate%20Scandal.pdf or just take a look at my blog: enricomizzi.blogspot.com.

Until he does, I invite him to refrain from mentioning credibility.

Dr Debono not only fails to rebut any of the findings of Dr Nils-Axel Mörner - internationally acclaimed as the expert on on-site sea-level research - but he also admits that sea levels "have not started rising yet" and that "climate change will only become perceptible in decades".

Why is it then that every natural event like hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, Antarctic ice shelves collapsing - even extreme cold conditions - are attributed or linked to global warming/climate change, if not to alarm people and governments?

Finally, regarding Dr Debono's latest scare: "ocean acidification" and the consequent "destruction of half our food source", I guess he hasn't heard of recent research by the University of North Carolina, which shows that while some species' ability to calcify worsened in highly acidic waters, others, like lobsters, crabs and shrimps, were unexpectedly able to build more shell as the acidity of the seawater increased.

These results therefore suggest that the impacts of ocean acidification on marine life may be more complex than previously thought. Or, maybe, this is also "pseudo-science"?

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