The good Doctor says he was asked to leave his laboratory in Hobart to come to the Eurobodalla and expound his views on sea-level rise at a question and answer forum at the Batemans Bay Solders’ Club on April 28.

However, he doesn’t say who asked him or who is paying for his travel, accommodation and for the room hire at the Solders’ Club.

These Samaritans of doom and gloom (the end of the earth is nigh) remind me of the snake oil salesmen in America’s Wild West of the 1800s.

The sea-level rise postulation is reminiscent of the fictitious ‘hole in the ozone layer’ and the ‘Y2K bug’ – and we all know about those two speculations.

I suggest those of us who are not disciples of the Church of doom and gloom, but believers of good old common-sense, go out on the evening of 28th with friends to a restaurant – eat, drink and be merry, catch a cab home, therefore and most importantly contributing to the economy in our area.

Jim Gibson

Long Beach