DAVID HALPIN FRCS

writes via email:

I respond to Helen

Chessum’s letter in last

week’s MDA which made

a plea for us to react to

climate change, because I

am sceptical.

However, I believe in

the precautionary principle.

We have had a wood

burner for 40 years, planted

many trees on poor

ground and supply logs.

We do not fly, and use the

train for longer journeys.

This whilst there are more

cars than ever, plus more

air and ship miles.

The early proponents of

climate change included

Al Gore and Blair! The

former used dodgy graphs

to make his case.

The focus is on carbon

dioxide, although methane

is a much more potent

atmospheric blanket.

People might not know

that small increases in

atmospheric carbon dioxide

stimulate vegetative

growth.

In those vast greenhouses

in the Lea Valley, the

boilers are turned on in

summer in order to produce

this gas.

This is trickled over the

salad crops to spur

growth. (BBC Farming

Today.)

Question: 5,000 years

ago our forebears were

harvesting einkorn, spelt

and millet here on the

uplands of Dartmoor. You

can still see the walls –

reves now.

Was this cycle of warming

local, regional or global?

It was not due to the

burning of fossil fuel! Was

it related to sun spot activity,

a possible factor in

any warming now?

Lies are masked within

the fully justified debate

on warming.

The Government is calling

the energy that will

come from the massive

Hinkley Point C ‘clean

energy’.

This when the disposal

of nuclear waste is insoluble

and medium-level

waste is leaking from the

tanks at Sellafield.

Windscale, Three Mile

Island, Chernobyl are

down the memory hole,

while at Fukushima they

are still quenching the

nuclear fires there.

Very potent isotopes

have washed into the

Pacific ever since two

reactors blew up.