Having been seriously bad-mouthed in recent exchanges on climate change, I’m not yet ready to follow Dave Hampton’s suggestion (Letters, March 21) and drop the subject.

The extreme weather the UK experienced this winter had nasty effects in Marlow, Saunderton and Hughenden Valley. That’s a fact I got from the Bucks Free Press.

And it’s typical of extreme weather being experienced throughout the globe. That’s a fact I got from Al Jazeera’s English News TV channel. Watching five minutes per day for less than a week should be enough.

If you want to understand what’s happening to global climate now, that fact helps a lot more than the data so lovingly collected by Roderick Taylor from ice cores thousands of years ago.

I also recommend a quick visit to the IPCC website to test his assertion that their views are politically inspired. You’ll soon see he’s talking palpable nonsense, which would be libellous if his opinion mattered. — Eric Alexander, Dovecot Road, High Wycombe