IN Adam Jenkins letter his final remark was: "So think about what you are saying."

The end of his previous paragraph he stated the accelerating impact of CO2-driven climate change has been scientifically and conclusively proven to be a major risk to life on earth.

CO2 lags temperature by 800 years in the ice core record.

CO2 also lags temperature by nine months in the modern data record.

CO2 lags temperature at all measured time scales.

Few want to acknowledge this reality, since it disproves the popular fiction that increasing atmospheric CO2 is a major driver of global temperature.

Which is based on the nonsensical notion that the future can drive the past.

Satellite data, which measures the lowest parts of earth's atmosphere, shows warming stalled for more than 18 years . The new Met office super computer just about gets the three day forecast correct, as for BBQ summers and freezing winters, well? Now they tell us in 10, 20, or 50 years what the climate will be.

Anyone making predictions should heed the words of the great philosopher Casey Stengel: Don't make predictions, especially about the future.

The Met Office is the last place to look for unbiased predictions. Computers can't tell us about the past causes of weather patterns, so what change have they of telling us the future.

All the scary scenarios are based on computer models. None of the models work.

To quote Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity."

Look at the historical record of CO2 in our atmosphere, we came dangerously close to losing plant life on Earth about 18,000 years ago, when CO2 levels approached 150 ppm, below which plant life can't sustain photosynthesis.

A 140 million year decline in CO2 to a level that came close to threatening the survival of life on Earth can hardly be described as " the balance of nature".

Now with CO2, 400ppm in the atmosphere the biosphere is once again booming as many recent studies confirm.

Dave Christian

Southampton