Letter: Folly of global warming fears (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Global warming is based on scientific data from all kind sof sources, from measurements of temperatures around the world over the last 150 years to ice core samples taken from the Arctic tracking back several thousand years.

Hardly any climate scientist seriously disputes global warming is taking place - the evidence is so overwhelming. The debate is between the majority of climate scientists who think that the evidence shows that human activity is the main cause of global warming and the minority of climate scientists who think that the cause of global warming may be something else.

Climate scientists who maintain that human activity is responsible for global warming point out that the average rise in global temperatures is closely linked to increases in burning fossil fuels (carbon emissions in the jargon). Those climate scientists who argue for other causes have come up with several suggestions. Unfortunately none of them as yet fit the data quite as well as the cause being mainly human activity.

Far from there being no proper debate on this subject, the internet is stuffed full of discussions and debates on the subject.

First of all on the subject of emmisions. At any one time there are 20 volcanos erupting around the world.
Secondly, climate change is cyclical, and it has always been with us.

Millions of years ago where I am sitting the area was at the bottom of a tropical sea. Ten thousand years ago it was under ice that was 2 kilometres thick. The politicians just loved it when global warming/climate change hit the headlines because it gave them a whole lot of new reasons to tax us.