Whatever next? Rex Pawley (Free Press, Oct. 17) seeks to rubbish our efforts to explain global warming by scientific means, without offering any alternative. Instead, we are urged to put our trust in politicians to safeguard the welfare of future generations.

What a hope, when our local MP recently gave the game away by informing me that ‘all three major (political) parties were agreed, at the time of the 2010 General Election, that (following the views of the IPCC), the main driving force of global warming was atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that the subject was not, therefore, a party matter’.

Ipso facto, it was therefore not electorally important, and thus deemed unchallengeable, despite the fact that this philosophy’s fundamental flaws are readily apparent to soundly-trained scientific minds. As a result, we have the diabolical, arrogantly-conceived ‘Climate Change Act’ of 2008 with all its resulting extravagantly expensive, largely useless and ugly wind turbines and solar cell farms, which will surely put the kibosh on our future as a thriving nation.

As the late Sir Patrick Moore (another despised scientist?) remarked to me after reading my paper on global warming, ‘it’s purely the Sun... purely the Sun’, which is undoubtedly true as a succinct summary.

Good luck, Mr Pawley, with your faith in our present rulers! – Roderick Taylor, Abbotsbrook, Bourne End