It was disappointing to see the story in Lai See ("Whatever happened to global warming for the past 16 years?" December 6).
The inconvenient truth is that it was based on an article by David Rose which first appeared in Britain's The Mail on Sunday more than two months ago. At the very least, your readers surely deserve some original content on the topic.
The Met Office (Britain's national weather service) responded to Mr Rose's article with facts clarifying some of the misleading information printed.
A climate reality is that, globally, the 20 warmest years on record occurred between the period 1987 and 2011, with 2012 set to be the warmest yet.
This disturbing trend is cause for alarm. But let's bring things closer to home.
According to the Hong Kong Observatory's climate change information, "The rate of increase in average temperature became faster in the latter half of the 20th century. In post-war years from 1947 to 2011, the average rise amounted to 0.15 degrees Celsius per decade, accelerating to 0.23 degrees per decade during 1982-2011."
Adding to that, data shows the rise of sea level in Victoria Harbour has been 2.8mm per year since 1954, with a 19 per cent spike between the early 1990s and 2011 from chart data.