High time we accept facts

Sir, – So, Angela Rennie, you don’t think that more than seven billion humans can change the weather?

Your comments about the ozone layer expose your lack of knowledge of the subject.

We humans were unknowingly destroying the ozone layer with CFC chemicals used mainly in the refrigeration and dry cleaning industry.

It took years to prove and get a world agreement to stop CFC use and begin to reverse the damage.

World pollution by plastics, chemicals, massive deforestation etc, due to human activity, have never been higher.

Burning billions of tons of fossil fuel releases 21.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year and this has changed much faster than the ancient historic norms.

The result is that half the CO2 is naturally absorbed and the rest is accumulating in our atmosphere every year.

It is now widely accepted by world wide scientists using modern technology that our planet is warming rapidly due to this process, causing rising sea levels and increasingly severe weather events.

It’s almost midnight and you still choose to ignore the latest hard scientific facts.

As individuals we can’t begin to solve this problem unless we accept it exists.

David Niven.

Elie Avenue, Barnhill.