I wish to respond to three recent letters, JJ Cahill and Steve Jones (May 5) and David James (May 6).

The first thing that sprang to mind was an image of three ostriches playing hide-and-seek in a sand pit.

Unlike these correspondents, I, however, believe in the science surrounding the complex issue of climate change and can therefore in no way be derogatorily described as a “climate change denier".

JJ Cahill believes “it's pointless worrying about things we have no control".

I do not concur. What if we are heading for a protracted cooling trend instead? There is peer reviewed scientific evidence that explains that we will descend into another ice age at some time, and geological evidence shows that we are due another one.

Planting windmills and laying carpets of solar panels all over the place will not prevent, and is not the answer in combating and living with inevitable climate change. We should be investing our resources into what we should do if and when another prolonged cooling trend begins.

And incidentally JJ Cahill, how can a letter that you say points out, "that climate is complex is more credible", be, “more insidious” at the same time?

But Mr Jones unlike you I am indeed “with the facts” along with the majority of scientists who specialise in climate related subjects. Such as:

Dr Joanne Simpson, first woman to receive a PhD in meteorology, formally of NASA, said (Warming fears are the) “worst scientific scandal in the history . . . when people come to know what the truth is they will feel deceived by science and scientists”.

Scientist/geologist/astronaut and moon walker Jack Schmitt who flew on the Apollo 17 mission said; “Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC . . . The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium . . . which is why global warming is now called ‘climate change’”.

I am most certainly not alone in my beliefs that are based entirely on the true tried and tested scientific method.

There are many, many thousands more scientists around the world, indeed the vast majority of scientists with specialities in climate related subjects that are as sceptical as I am of human caused climate change

Stuart A Chapman

Ireland