Time to scrap climate act

Sir, - It is not surprising that leading environmental campaigners like Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of the Earth have warned the Government against spending less money from taxpayers to “tackle climate change” since, at present, these groups greatly benefit financially from our money.

However, in view of our tiny proportion of the world’s greenhouse output (less than 3%) climate change is not a logical, prudent or even sensible use of our financial support.

Claims are ludicrous that the major CO2 emitters, like China and the USA, would follow a good example set by the UK, including Scotland.

Acts of monstrous economic self-harm is how US authorities view measures adopted to change the climate on the basis of shaky scientific speculation using computer models which, unsurprisingly, have proved unreliable like other long-term weather forecasts.

It is clear that global weather systems are too complex to allow reliable, accurate prediction.

Means of preventing climate change are unprovable, so why spend more money on these proven failures?

Since our means of influencing climate change amount to no more than virtue signalling and we are very heavily indebted and needing to boost the economy and finances, fruitlessly spending money on climate change is, simply, daft.

Our Climate Change Acts of 2008/9 must be urgently repealed. (Dr) Charles Wardrop. 111 Viewlands Road West, Perth.