Regarding his letter on climate change of August 9, Jim Watson might be satisfied with relying on the prognostications of a captured, corporate-funded ‘fact’-checking industry to decide whether a document about ‘climate change’ has legitimacy; some of us prefer to do our own research and use our own discernment.

I suggest that Jim and other climate-change advocates read the following books: Christopher Booker’s Global Warming: A Case Study in Groupthink (2018); Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex (2021); David Craig’s There Is No Climate Crisis (2021); Bernie Lewin’s Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2017); C. Paul Smith’s The Climate Change Hoax Argument (2021); and Peter Taylor’s Chill: A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory (2008). That’s over 1,750 pages worth of books written by researchers casting considerable doubt on whether there is indeed a climate-change crisis.

Now I’m certainly not saying that the existence of six published books challenging ‘climate change’ science necessarily proves that there is no climate crisis; merely that a considerable literature written by a range of experts exists that does challenge it, and that such detailed scientific arguments need to be taken very seriously, and fully debated in the public square, before anyone can claim to have reached a settled view about it.

That this is not happening, that there now exists a massive self-interested climate-change ‘industry’ (the Climate Industrial Complex) and that the global legacy media is in lockstep over climate change must surely lead anyone who is intelligent and open-minded to want to research this issue much more deeply, before uncritically accepting mainstream narratives and all the massive technocratic, freedom-curtailing changes in our everyday lives that they would entail.

Yours

Richard House

Stroud