I do wish that the likes of Rob Megg (The Northen Echo 6th June) would check their ‘facts’ before going to press. Yes, climate change is happening. If it wasn’t we’d be living on a dead planet. No, scientific evidence does not overwhelming support it being man made. He should try reading some of journalist Lawrence Solomons profiles of, so far, three dozen scientists of ‘great eminence’, all recognised leaders in their fields, many of them actually involved in the IPCC, who question the IPCC conclusions.
Evidence, not rhetoric, also shows that oil companies do not finance the ‘deniers’, for the simple reason that they want to protect their ‘vested interests’ by improving their green credentials.
As for using emotive terms like ‘crank’ and ‘denier’ that is the usual response of those lacking facts.
What we need to be doing is researching ways to cope with inevitable climate change, not focussing on economically destructive pogroms, which will lead to impoverishment. Lets put the wasted cash into the research and development of flood defences, food production, water and securing a supply of cheap, possibly renewable, plentiful energy, which is vital to our nation’s economic and social well-being.
That is the no-brainer Mr. Meggs.