Climate change debate long moved to fact

Sir, – I wondered why Jenny Fuchter is puzzled at what she sees as a lack of scientific debate on climate change in Britain? (“Bring balance to climate debate”, Letters October 24).

We don’t have much scientific debate on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution or whether the sun revolves around the earth in more scientific circles these days either, but they were once both subjects of serious scientific debates.

Or rather a lack of debate as these ideas were ridiculed and dangerous for the scientists involved.

I checked the Oxford

Dictionary, often regarded as the world’s most trusted dictionary, and a ‘climate denier’ is, according to them, “a person who rejects the proposition that climate change caused by human activity is occurring”.

I am more of a historian than a scientist, although I did pass my Higher physics when at Perth Academy. But as a graduate librarian I did a wee bit research of the ‘History of Climate Change’.

It started in the early 19th Century when statistics became available of the increase in global temperate trends.

I was aware of the damage humans were doing to this planet in the 1970s and scientific opinion already favoured this idea.

By the 1990s there was a consensus among scientists that climate change exists.

The debate this side of the Atlantic is long over. Most of the world accepts climate change as scientifically correct.

Students all over the world are striking to try and save this planet before it is too late.

Old age pensioners, along with many others, are getting themselves arrested at public protests and demonstrations.

Governments have accepted this science and declared climate emergencies.

Closer to home, PKC hasn’t quite got round to formally admitting that there is a climate emergency, but have tacitly accepted this position by some of its actions. But it is not enough. More can be done.

However Ms Fuchter is not alone in her opinions. There is always Donald Trump.

Elspeth Maclachlan. Perth and Kinross Greens,

122 Dunsinane Drive, Letham, Perth.