Fallacy of climate change

Sir, - Douglas Robertson chides me for ignoring pro-climate change scientists (March 4).

These scientists are desperate to keep their research grants but are struggling to explain why there has been an 18 to 20-year “hiatus” in global warming.

Here are just a few of their excuses out of the 52 so far concocted.

Low solar activity, oceans ate global warming, volcanic aerosols, stratospheric water vapour, it’s not so unusual and no more than natural variability, we forgot to cherry-pick models in tune with natural variability, few El Ninos since 1999, the wrong type of El Ninos, climate is less sensitive to CO2 than thought, IPCC models are too complex, as soon as the sun, the weather and volcanoes allow, the world will start warming again.

This is why I am questioning the billions being spent by the UK on climate change measures to save a tiny fraction of the UK’s 1.3% of global emissions. Clark Cross. 138 Springfield Road, Linlithgow.