CO2 is beneficial to all life on this Earth

Sir, – Your correspondents Nick Cole and Alistair Ballantyne (June 9) are like sandwichboard men walking up an down with placards saying: “The End of the World is Nigh”.

Like many alarmists they see no benefit in climate change. But it brings many benefits.

Milder winters would reduce the cost of heating; would make roads safer with less ice and less salt needed, and less corrosion as a result.

Warmer summers would make the growing season longer so farmers can produce more and provide a boost for the tourist industry. More rain will top-up the reservoirs which supply our drinking water and keep hydro plants functioning.

CO2 is necessary for all life. The increase over the past 200 years has been beneficial. More in the atmosphere increases plant growth. That is why horticulturalists buy CO2 to filter into greenhouses.

Satellite images show the Earth is greening. The Sahel is not growing, as climate doomsters predicted.

Some greening is caused by more rainfall but as the co-founder of Greenpeace Dr Patrick Moore demonstrated, CO2 produced by industry, transport and modern life has halted a steady decline in atmospheric CO2, a decline over hundreds of thousands of years.

If that trend had continued unabated, plant life would have begun dying. Dr Moore welcomes more man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Alarmists claim that climate change will bring dangerous weather events and we certainly have been bombarded by images of all sorts of natural disasters with the implication that these are increasing. But not according to the UN International Panel on Climate Change. Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and storms have always been part of nature. In 1876, for example, the Backerganj cyclone drowned 200,000 people in half an hour with winds of 140mph causing a storm surge across the Bay of Bengal.

A recent report by climate researcher Paul Homewood revealed the BBC’s institutional alarmism by persistent exaggeration and false information.

The truth is that anthropogenic warming contributes a tiny fraction of global influence in the great system of climate change which has which has continued for millennia and will continue long after homo sapiens disappear from the planet. William Loneskie. Justice Park, Oxton.