‘Vast rift over climate change is very worrying’

His letter demonstrates the vast rift between those concerned by inaction on tackling climate change and those with the belief that we in Britain are doing what is required of us and ‘leading the way’ while other countries are not.

Most worryingly, our government and the science are on opposite sides of this vast rift. While Britain has significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions, it is deluded to believe present government policy is ‘leading the way’ anywhere other than into a climate catastrophe.

The science remains quite plain.

Our global emissions must halve by 2030, zero by 2050 and then go negative for a century.

Let us forget for a moment that Britain’s past per capita cumulative emissions were the worst.

Our territorial emissions may be much reduced but we remain well off target for halving our national carbon footprint by 2030.

The scientific message is plain and more attuned to the demands of those sticking themselves to the outsides of tube trains than it is to our government’s climate policies.

It seems government only sees an anarchic protest.

They remain blind to the message that we still are not doing enough on climate change while time for action slips away.

DR MARTIN RODGER

Bloxworth Road, Parkstone