YOUR correspondent Anthony Weeden enjoys sharing his confusion with your readers. His letter of July 16 says I once cited hot weather in Australia as “proof of manmade global warming”. No, Mr Weeden, I did not: I wish you’d read what I actually write. Or maybe you can’t tell the difference between evidence and proof. I’ve never claimed to offer proof of manmade global warming. It’s a theory that can be neither proved nor disproved.

But the evidence for it is strong and the list of knowledgeable people who accept that evidence is impressive: so much so that anyone who ignores that evidence is playing dangerous games with the future of the planet.

As for a claim that the theory is a government ploy to justify unnecessary tax increases, that is an idiotic, despicable and irresponsible calumny.

Eric Alexander, Chestnut Avenue, High Wycombe

Editor’s note: In Anthony Weeden’s letter of two weeks ago, the Bucks Free Press incorrectly inserted June 25 as being the date of Eric Alexander’s last reference to hot weather in Australia in relation to manmade global warming. Mr Alexander, in fact, did not mention Australia in his letter of June 25, but referred to it in a previous letter last year. We would like to clarify that this was a production error by the BFP and not by the correspondents involved in this debate.