Letter: There is no climate change controversy

Recently there has been a concerted campaign by many of your correspondents who are ignorant of the science of climate change to convince us that it is some major conspiracy to impose communism on Scotland and the UK.

They themselves admit that they are not scientists. They ignore the 98 per cent of scientists who say global warming is happening and is caused by the actions of humankind.

They have been duped by a slick PR campaign by the fossil fuel industry. Global warming deniers use the same tactic as creationists to try to pretend that there is an ongoing argument about the validity of both scientific theories.

Global warming sceptics are welcome to challenge the scientific consensus over man-made global warming with evidence in peer-reviewed scientific journals. They could do this in the same way as Einstein challenged and defeated the once majority view of Newtonian mechanics. Until they can do this there is no controversy surrounding the reality of man-made global warming and the threat that it poses to our planet.

We must adopt a position that man-made global warming is real because we don't have another planet to move to if things go wrong.

Alan Hinnrichs

Gillespie Terrace

Dundee

It's not just the increased risk of strokesthat proponents of wind turbines need to consider (Letters, 28 January).

Every single one of these giant machines contains a 2.5 tonne magnet made out of neobdynium, which is a very dirty metal indeed.

The manufacture of neobdynium involvesthe production ofradioactive thorium as waste, and this is so dirty that its production is banned by every civilised country on the planet, except one. You've guessed it - China.

I'm beginning to think there isn't any truly environmentally friendly way of getting the energy our modern economyneeds.

Every method I've ever heard of seems to haveits downside for someone somewhere. But Ido wish a certain politician would stop posing as the Messiah when condemning one energy source while hailing another.

ROBERT VEITCH

Paisley Drive

Edinburgh