Taking David Attenborough’s lead
Forum – I have decided my successful campaign to restore the façade of the Council Chambers in Gosford will not be a one-off event. I am in the process of…
climate change
Council welcomes expert-led Bushfire and Climate Plan
Following devastating bushfires in the region last summer, Central Coast Council has welcomed a new Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan put out last month by a coalition of 33 former…
Times have definitely changed
[Forum] The Member for Robertson’s full-page advertisement in edition 489 is a major turnaround from her election campaign in May 2019. A short list of probable reasons for this change…
Climate change deniers lack scientific understanding
[Forum]With all due respect, I have become rather disappointed with the clearly displayed lack of scientific understanding and the false information promulgated by climate change deniers. Reading letters to the…
Scientific predictions made long ago are being shown to be true
[Forum] Fellow Woy Woy resident, Charles Hemmings’ letter re the ‘two climate camps’ in Coast Community News edition 232 is an unfortunate example of the distortions generously sponsored by fossil…
Ignoring danger is not prudent
[Forum] Mr Hemming’s skepticism about climate change (Coast Community News Edition 232) is to be welcomed, although he is drawing the long bow a little in comparing belief in the…
Neither Carbon nor its oxide affect climate in any way
[Forum] Congratulations to Charles Hemmings (Coast Community News Edition 232) for castigating both climate change alarmists and deniers for their fake scientists and flawed scientific logic. They are like a…
Climate change alarmists and deniers do not have a solid foundation in fact
[Forum] This letter to the editor is in reply to several letters that appeared in Coast Community News edition 230, pertaining to climate change. There are two camps, the climate…
Public hearing on climate change to hear from residents
Residents will be invited by Central Coast Council to a public hearing for action on climate change. Deputy Mayor, Jane Smith, put forward the idea in response to a proposed…
Public hearing for action on climate change proposed
Residents will be invited by Central Coast Council to a public hearing for action on climate change. Deputy Mayor, Jane Smith, put forward the idea in response to a proposed…
Climate change results from an ever increasing population
[Forum]We are all aware of the current excitement over climate change, but it seems that there is little substance to the ill-informed hoo-hah. The climate is simply the daily weather…
Nature has a way of recovering
[Forum] Put the words ‘climate’ and ‘change’ into a headline (Coast Community News edition 229) and you are bound to get some reaction in this modern era. After all, it…
‘The greenhouse effect’ says it all
[Foum] This letter is in response to Godfrey Franz’s letter which appeared in Coast Community News, edition 229. Mr Franz can expect to find no evidence one way or the…
Climate change evidence is there for all to see
[Forum] This letter is in response to Godfrey Franz’s letter which appeared in Coast Community News 229. Within his incoherent ramble, he asks for facts and photos. If he wanted…
Quiet Australians seek action on climate change
A quiet protest to be held outside the West Gosford office of Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, on February 22, will seek support from the Federal MP for action on…
Climate action rejected for 40 years
Climate change action has been rejected by the three levels of government since at least the 1980s. The ramifications of this apathy have reached crisis level years in advance of…
Religious response to climate change
Also in attendance at the People’s Climate Assembly in the grounds of Parliament House on February 4 was Gosford Anglican priest, Fr Rod Bower, who joined Buddhists, Anglicans, Catholics, Quakers…
Council adopts Climate Change Policy
Following some fairly heated debate, Central Coast Council adopted its first Climate Change Policy on July 8, with some clauses relating to sea level rise planning and the process of…
Community workshop on climate change
A community workshop will be held at Ettalong Beach this Wednesday, February 27, to give residents the chance to have their say on Central Coast Councils Climate Change Policy. It…
Younger generation are going to cop the worst from climate change
Groups and individuals distributing misinformation about Central Coast Council’s imminent draft Climate Change strategy, are causing unnecessary fear, according to, John Asquith, Chair of the Community Environment Network (CEN). “For…