There were two recent letters in the Advertiser with the titles Foolish To Ignore The Advice Of Climate Experts and Madness To Ignore Evidence. Both statements may be true. However, surely, the academic status of such ‘climate experts’ and the scientific basis of that ‘evidence’ must be relevant to any conclusions reached. One of the major authorities in real climate science is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is a US scientific and regulatory agency and is charged with forecasting global weather and monitoring global oceanic and atmospheric conditions. NOAA was f…