Crisis? What crisis?

You report (9 March): "Scots should be darning their socks and looking to their grandparents for advice in order to lead greener lifestyles, according to the new environment minister."

It seems pertinent to retort that last Wednesday, the debating society of St Andrews University debated the motion "This house believes global warming is a global crisis". It was defeated.

It is believed to have been the first time students in the UK have voted to reject a motion that asserts a serious threat from "global warming".

As I said in my address at St Andrews: "There's no evidence for man-made global warming; none, not any of any kind."

After I stated this, the citing of one solitary piece of evidence for anthropogenic global warming could have been used to demolish and ridicule my case, which was the foundation of our opposition to the motion.

We won on "truth", and climate realists always would win on "truth" in an open debate.

This demonstrates what can happen when people – including those in Scotland – are exposed to both sides of the global warming debate.

RICHARD S COURTNEY

Longfield

Falmouth, Cornwall