Response to Steve Needham and Mark Adams letter

Dear Editor

Oh dear – what a response from Mark Adams. He unfortunately missed the main point of Steve’s letter. The letter was not about denying Climate Change. His first two lines state ‘Before you get your hackles up, I am not about to deny Climate Change.’

The point Steve was trying to make was quite clear. We are a small country producing less than 1% of global emissions so if we continue without support/input from the polluting nations all we are doing is making the UK poorer and more vulnerable economically and militarily.

The reply from Mark Adams goes on in great detail about global warming not disputed by me (I’m too ignorant and ill-informed maybe because I read the Daily Mail occasionally). But there was no need for Mark Adams to be what could be described as offensive and dismissive of the rights of others to express an alternative opinion to his

Andrew Bale