Back to school?
Dr John Cameron rightly suggests that Greta Thunberg, the young alarmist of climate doom for our descendants, should go back to her school lessons (Letters, 27 April).
Global warming forecasts, based on faulty computer models, indicating poor scientific understanding of the manifold influences on climate, have gone unrealised for many years.
Her warnings to the Westminster parliament met with applause and standing ovations by Michael Gove, Ed Milliband, Caroline Lucas and others, and to the media were widely taken “as Gospel”.
The present disruptive decarbonisation strategy, with very costly, damaging tactics, as described by Mark Openshaw, are rather discounted by Greta Thunberg and politicians including the UK energy minister. Claire Perry seems little concerned with maintaining our energy supplies but, rather, their tactical reduction.
The above considerations mean that drastic revision is essential for UK, including Scottish, energy and climate change policies. Otherwise national impoverishment looms to no climate benefit because of the negligibility of our greenhouse gas emissions but their continuing release by the “big emitters”.
(DR) CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth
John Cameron attempts to promote anthropogenic climate change (ACC) denialism by calling Greta Thunberg’s
family “luvvies” and accusing Greta herself of showing a “breathtaking arrogance and ignorance”.
By using such distasteful personal accusations against a 16-year-old and her family Dr Cameron does his denialist
cause no good whatsoever.
A 16-year-old “little girl”, as he contemptuously dismisses her, breathtakingly arrogant? How about courageous in opposing, initially singlehandedly, some very powerful forces? The denialists display
a remarkable degree of hubris by refusing to recognise the implications of the fact that 97 per cent of the world’s climate scientists have convinced the world’s politicians, with a few disreputable exceptions, that ACC is a very real threat.
JOHN MILNE Ardgowan Drive, Uddingston