Strategy to tackle climate change must consider disruptive effects upon society

start taking this issue seriously and it must start now”. Meanwhile, we continue to produce hydrocarbons and import fracked gas for us or others to burn. This approach is like that of Norway, making a big gesture out of their Sovereign wealth fund not investing in hydrocarbons while issuing exploration licences in the Arctic. The effect of removing Scotland’s internal carbon emissions from the global total is negligible. An immediate ban on North Sea Oil won’t happen because even the SNP realise the electorate know such measures would severely affect living standards. They are willing to risk harming the economy for their separatist obsession – but not to save the planet. Their approach on global warming is to pretend to be doing something so that they can say “It wisnae, me it was the bad boys that did it”. The flatlands around the moral high ground are littered with the bones of fallen hypocrites.

Whether we’re in or out of the EU, Europe will do their own thing on emissions but the most effective use of our votes as individuals is to use them within the UK to influence the reduction of the UK’S overall larger effect on global warming. Any strategy must consider the disruptive effects on our society and mitigate against them.

Earlswells Road, Cults, Aberdeen Greta Thunberg, the übergreen 16-year-old daughter of a family of Swedish “luvvies”, refuses to go to school to study the science of climate change because as far as she is concerned “the science is done and only denial and inaction remain”.

While one would expect a 16-year-old to say something like that, her arrogance and ignorance are breathtaking. If she studied science she’d see the problem with climate alarmism is that computer model predictions don’t fit the facts.

The great scientist Richard Feynman once said: “It doesn’t matterhowbeautifulyourtheory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”

This little girl needs to get out of the TV studios and into school.

Howard Place, St Andrews