Climate critics

Dr Richard Dixon’ s article (Scots man ,4 June ), en joining us all in the UK to take the present “climate emergency” more seriously, ends with the truism that “Ignoring science does not actually protect you from climate change”.

Nor will wind turbines, electric cars and all the restrictions and changes in energy generation the Greens call for, de carbonisation being far from proven as prophylaxis against adverse climate developments. Moreover, the UK’S output of CO2 is trivial, at 1.13 per cent of the global total. Most of the greenhouse gases anyway come from China, USA, India and other non-participants in the Paris Accord.

Decarbonisation is huge - ly costly to us, for example depriving many of basic needs and the national infrastructure of adequate repairs.

Thus, your reports on fuel poverty in one-third of British households and a university funding “black hole” for infrastructure maintenance.

These reports eloquently remind us that public money is inadequate, stretched by needs for health and welfare, education, the infrastructure and defence.

Realistically and humanely, despite the inevitable embarassment to those in charge of running the nation, we must press for the repeal of the Climate Change Acts (2008,9) so as to be able to put vast mon

ies to more-genuinely needy purposes.

CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth

Richard Dixon spouts the usual unproven climate claims and predictions (Inside Environment, 4 June). Recent decades are full of failed predictions from so - called climate scientists and other alarmists, and here are a few.

In 1988 the Maldives government claimed that the atoll would be submerged “within the next 30 years”.

Also in 1988 NASA’S James Hansen predicted that, withi n 2 0 y e a r s , t h e We s t S i d e Highway (which runs along the Hudson River, New York) “will be under water”.

In 1990 Professor Michael Oppenheimer, lead UN author, said that by 1996 the Platte River, Nebraska, “would be dry”.

In 2007, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, US Navy, made a “projection of 2013” for the arctic to be ice-free in summer. I could go on.

Not a single climate prediction has come true. And in the meantime the Maldives government has constructed or upgraded at least six airports, all less than 2 metres ab ove sea level, and encouraged the construction of innumerable beach front hotels.

He r e’s my p r e d i c t i o n . We have 12 years to save our civilisation from climate alarmists. GEOFF MOORE Alness, Highland