Global cooling is the real problem
IN response to Gary Byrne (Letters, July 5), 31,000 scientists did indeed sign a petition stating that they did not believe that humans were causing global warming. This is more than 10 times the number of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The petition was organised by Professor Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.
Mr Byrne is wrong to say the Earth is continuing to warm.
Data from such bodies as the World Meteorological Organisation show that there has been no increase in global temperatures since 1998.
In fact the world is colder that it was 20 years ago, undermining the notion that carbon dioxide is causing runaway global warming.
Those tendentious ads on TV about carbon footprints are part of the most relentless propaganda campaign in human history to promote an ideology that now seems to be based on very shaky foundations.
PAUL BUTLER
TERENURE, DUBLIN 6
