Dear Editor,
Stephen Carter’s letter, ‘Hot Topic’, en Oct, stated that ‘data from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) simply doesn’t support … climate alarmism’. On the contrary, IPCC’s Sixth Report, Part II, 28 February 2022, is headed: ‘Climate change: a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet’ and states that: ‘This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction… (Hoesung Lee, Chair, IPCC).’ And, most ‘alarming’ of all: ‘Any further delay … will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.’
Relief organisations are censured for ‘claiming that droughts have been brought about by climate change’, again without IPCC support. On the contrary, its Report (see above) states that ‘human-induced climate change … is affecting the lives of billions of people’; that ‘people least able to cope are being hardest hit’; and that ‘Increased heatwaves, droughts and floods … have exposed millions of people to acute food and water insecurity’. [For a more recent treatment of this, see https://www.drdavidgolding.com/post/harvest-23-will-you-mark-it-with-celebration-or-lament]
