Dear Editor
Like me, readers may be unfamiliar with the name Claire Coutinho. She was Energy Secretary in the last government and now shadows the post. I heard her being interviewed by an unusually receptive Nick Robinson recently on BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking. She welcomed a ‘subtle (pragmatic) change of policy away from green causes’ and lamented that ‘Net Zero has become a religion’ that is counter-productive and hugely costly to businesses, consumers and job creation. She deplored the way in which those who dare to question mainstream or scientific opinion a frequently pilloried as heretics.
Another name that may be unfamiliar to many is Ted Nordhaus, a leading American global thinker on energy, the environment, climate and politics. In his article Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist he explains why he no longer believes as he once did in the hyperbole relating to the multitude of repeatedly misleading and apocalyptic warnings of climate catastrophe. In a similar vein. the Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace Dr Patrick Moore has confronted convention with his Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. There are further balanced and realistic assessments to be found in the Danish political scientist/statistician Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Concluding this abbreviated list of what those of alarmist persuasions often dismiss as ‘flat-earthers’, there is Dr Roy Spencer, a former senior scientist with NASA. Among his numerous publications is Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor.
While Ed Miliband and his ilk will remain too consumed with their short-sighted political ideology and environmental zeal to consider seriously the more informed perspectives of those mentioned above, as well as many others who have endured marginalisation and ridicule, it is encouraging that such growing levels of understanding and courage are challenging the status quo and helping to swell the ranks of climate enlightenment.
Neil J Bryce
Kelso
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