Global warming?

One hundred months ago, Prince Charles said: “The best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change.” Well, time is up and I have seen no good evidence that this has come true.

Politicians are more cautious in their choice of words in order to have a get-out clause. For example, in 2008 Al Gore said that the Arctic “could” be free of summer sea ice by 2013. Again, wrong.

What about the “scientists”? When working at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit in 2000, Dr David Viner claimed that “winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event” and “children just aren’t going to know what snow is”. Wrong again, the two winters from 2009 were particularly cold and snowy.

In 2009, James Hansen of Nasa (the so-called “grandfather of climate change”) said: “We have only four years left.” That four-year point passed four years ago.

Ironically, during the very first Earth Day summit in 1970 ecologist Kenneth Watt said the Earth would be “11 degrees colder in the year 2000” and would “put us into an ice age”.

GEOFF MOORE Braeface Park, Alness I have read a number of letters recently critical of the service provided at Edinburgh Airport.

I must say that I agree with them.

I am, however, surprised that the airport has not felt it necessary to respond to them. It is a disappointment that perhaps airport management does not read The Scotsman or, even more to the point, that it does not consider criticism of its provision by passengers to be worthy of a reply and explanation.

More and more services are being added to what Edinburgh Airport can offer, which can only be good news, but it would be nice to think that this added income was to be re-invested in the infrastructure to provide a world-class experience for all passengers, for it certainly falls far short of that right now.

DAVID GERRARD Spylaw Park, Edinburgh