IN FURTHER response to Mr Brazier on climate change, I looked up the ‘Space and Scientific Research Corporation’ and found a) it no longer exists – the correct name being the ‘Space and Science Research Corporation’ and b) the most recent evidence of its existence is a 2013 Facebook page linked to a non-existent website.

Other articles on the web indicate that their John Casey has almost no scientific qualifications.

The NOAA affair is a squabble between John Bates of NOAA and a colleague, Thomas Karl, about the handling of the climate data used in a single journal paper, rather than about the data itself, blown up into a “scandal” in the Mail on Sunday. 

The Mail claimed that this one journal paper formed a conspiracy to influence the direction of the Paris climate negotiations, despite these having started four years before and relying on a wealth of data from many other agencies, (see snopes.com/2017/02/08/noaa-scientists-climate-change-data).

It is boggling that anyone still finds climate change a difficult fact to accept.

Sydney, Australia, has had temperatures over 40ºC for three continuous weeks, temperatures in the Arctic have been 20ºC above normal.

Will it take the sea to boil before Mr Brazier gets the message?

The cost of electricity generated using on-shore wind turbines is now cheaper than that of coal or gas, which is going up, while wind costs are coming down. 

Wind turbines can be relied on to generate power 80-85 per cent of the time and their output is easy to predict from weather forecasts.

The UK government has stopped subsidies to on-shore wind and is being forced to subsidise coal, gas and nuclear power because renewables are more economic.

Fracking is ridiculous, an extravagant method of retrieving fuel that should be left in the ground while industrialising the countryside.

RW IRVING
Cotswold Green Party