‘Cult’ wisdom on climate change based on guesswork

SPOTTING the title of your article, ‘My dad jokes climate change doesn’t matter – teens teaching their parents how to be Green’

(Irish Independent, October 8), reminded me instantly of the famous Mark Twain quip: “At 17, he could scarcely endure his father, the old gentleman was so ignorant. At 25, he was astonished at the improvement his father had made in the last eight years.”

A certain wisdom comes with age. I have noticed no discernible change in the weather in the last 50-plus years and the Met Éireann data on the CSO website confirms this. I also value critical thinking.

As CO2 concentrations rise, the associated greenhouse effect from it decreases and this CO2-related energy increase amounts only to circa 1pc of the solar energy input. This ‘tiny stubby tail simply does not wag the big dog’ unless the planet’s climatic systems are hopelessly unstable, which they aren’t.

Furthermore, until the heat and mass flows through clouds are understood, these climate models will continue solely to be algorithms based on guesswork.

This agenda is now one based solely on beliefs, not analysis, in which those on soapboxes are telling us how we have to change dramatically our way of life, pay more taxes, etc.

According to Mary Robinson, as I do not share her beliefs, I am evil. This wisdom screams ‘cult’ and reminds me of the phrase popular back in the 1980s: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” Glenageary, Co Dublin Pat Swords