Pray for guidance

Mr John Milne’s view (Letters, 9 January) is that the Church could and must lend strength to attempts at combatting adverse climate changes by vehemently opposing the polluting processes damaging our planet.

That, however, is surely no more realistically practical than the oft-claimed imperative that the UK, including Scotland, should set a good example to the world in decarbonisning home and industry.

Nevertheless, John Milne, a churchgoer, evidently sees the Church’s failure to give a strong lead in tackling such environmental problems as perhaps its worst present failure

in meeting its Christian responsibilities.

The precautionary principle moving him does, in fact, depend on very wide if not universal, international compliance in decarbonising endeavours. That has not been achieved and never will be. Despite his view that the unproven, unprovable greenhouse gases-global warming hypothesis must be correct, its acceptance is far from unanimous

amongst scientists, as rightly implied by Rev Dr Cameron’ (Letters, 8 January).

Although the love of money may be the “root of all evil,” there is only so much in resources to go round and, recalling the negligible proportion of global greenhouse gases emanating from these islands, both the Treasury and the Church should surely expend money and efforts to more useful, practical purpos

es than tilting at the windmill of man-made climate change. DR CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth