Yes, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but it is only a trace gas that accounts for a small part of the atmosphere and it has had a tendency to warm the climate by about 0.5C during the last century. At this point in time global temperatures are relatively stable.

The Green Party’s, and its wider associated movements’, assertion that man’s continued use of fossil fuels is going to heat the atmosphere to high temperatures in many years to come is wrong. There is no evidence to support this theory. It is time science revisited the manmade carbon dioxide driven global warming theory with some urgency.

At this point in time the green movement would have me burnt at the stake for heresy in challenging orthodox global warming theory, and no, I don’t have shares in any oil companies.

Henrik Svensmark, the Danish scientist with research over many years with help from many scientists in all fields of science, has proved that clouds are the main greenhouse gas. The major breakthrough came in 2005 with the SKY experiment at the Danish National Space Centre that clearly demonstrated the pivotal role of cosmic rays and ions in the seeding and formation of clouds that affect climate change and global warming. This would make the manmade global warming theory redundant.

Do we make a bonfire of all our fossil fuels? The answer is no. Global warming is not in man’s control.

A full-scale cloud facility is being built in Geneva by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern).

Sustainability is important to make the earth’s fossil fuels and nuclear energy last as long as possible to allow scientists to bring forward alternative fuel technologies, if mankind does not achieve this it will be a case of “would the last person to leave earth please turn off the lights”.

Cllr G Evans

Prospect Road

Scarborough