IN reply to Lindsay Leake 

(November 15): Dr Finkel is our chief scientist and he is correct because the entire southern hemisphere is a NET co2 Sink.  Ditto for Australia, but the 

entire northern Hemisphere is a NET co2 source. See CSIRO data and think it through.

And the TROVE online sources prove that fire seasons in Queensland can be from July to May and early spring and summer fires are not uncommon. NSW fires can start in August and continue into summer, when conditions allow. See BOM map online.

We need to spend our resources wisely, reducing extreme fuel loads in the cooler months, because of decades of neglect. 

And I repeat again that today deaths from extreme weather events have dropped by 95 per cent since 1920. Yet the population today is 4.25 greater than the population of 100 years ago.  Again, think it through. 

Neville Gardner  Mildura