Children used as pawns at climate protests

Madam, – Using children to spread the false message of “climate breakdown” is educationally disruptive and spreads fear, alarm and lies among young people.

There is no “climate emergency” or “climate breakdown”.

The earth’s climate has always been changing and will continue to change long after humanity has disappeared from the planet. The predictions of the alarmists have been proved wrong so often that sensible people are tiring of them.

In March 2009 Prince Charles said “we have less than 100 months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change”.

In 1989 the UN caused fear by stating “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by 2000”.

While in 2006 Al Gore, now a carbon billionaire, warned “we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution”.

There is a vast difference between environmental awareness and green quasi-religion.

We in Scotland, a cold country with only 0.13% of global emissions, should welcome climate change not attempt to oppose it like King Canute.

Parents concerned about their children’s future employment prospects and their capacity for reason and logic should ensure that their sons and daughters are not used as pawns by green fanatics. William Loneskie, Amulree, 9 Justice Park, Oxton, Lauder.