Climate change not a new issue

Dear Editor,

The scientific facts are that our planet has been hotter and it has been colder.

We are currently recovering from a mini-ice age that existed from the 1500 to 1850. The last time the Thames River in London, England froze was 1815. The geological history of our planet shows that the temperature increases followed by a rise in CO2, not CO2 causing the temperature to increase. We have actually only recovered a few degrees.

The waters are not rising on our east coast shorelines, the shorelines are sinking at a geological rate of one foot every 100 years due to continental drift (North America and Europe are drifting apart after colliding a few million years ago) that causes a stretching and a sinking of our east coast shorelines.

That is why a 17th Century road built, to build Fortress Louisburg on Cape Breton Island, is under three feet of water. (Written correspondence from the Resident Archeologist of Fortress Louisberg 1996).

Liam Venner