Green gridlock

Friends of the Earth have certainly given recent green converts the SNP a thing or two to think about with their claim that burning the remaining North Sea oil would see Scotland miss all Paris agreement climate change targets. What

this goes to show is that governments need to think long and hard about all decisions they make and not just make headline statements to appeal to whoever is the target audience of the day. The recent Air Passenger Duty headline grabber couldn’t have come at a worse time in this respect.

The SNP are not a government, they are just a protest group with little clue about how to formulate lasting policy. The evidence? Ignore the free hand outs, look at the absence of major policy and the state of the country.

It will be interesting to see how they square North Sea oil with their new green credentials.

KEN CURRIE Liberton Drive, Edinburgh What is popularly known as “climate science” is more like“dietary mumbo jumbo” where every guru has his/her own ideas.

At best its a very immature science and most of its current conclusions will be rejected with time as were its past predictions of global cooling and an immanent Ice Age.

It doesn’ t matter how many people believe something. Science is always tentative and its incumbent on ever y scientist to question things that are “settled”. The attempt by the alarmist community to bulldoze everyone into believing the end is nigh confirms its an ideology and not a science.

Politically inspired groupthink in government means “celebrity scientists” who can create panic receive money to help them expand their empires. Research scientists, who want to explore the many discrepancies of the climate apocalypse, are refused funding or even ousted from their universities. (REV DR) JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place, St Andrews