Letter from Andrew Day (From Swindon Advertiser)

Letter from Andrew Day

12:42pm Tuesday 9th March 2010 in

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IN A recent letter to the Advertiser, Robert Feal-Martinez wrote “Of course no one in their right mind now believes it” (referring to man-made global warming). In this single sentence, UKIP’s Head of Media Relations demonstrated both his contempt for the electorate and his ignorance of scientific methodology.

Now, however, he has gone one step further. The report (yet to be confirmed) that a disturbed couple in Argentina murdered one child and tried to kill a second because of fears about global warming is a tragedy. The attempts by UKIP to make political capital from it is pathetic.

Mr Feal-Martinez accuses the IPCC and the EU of having a vested interest in what he calls the “fallacy of climate change”. Is it not strange that he hasn’t said a word about other vested interest groups? Oil companies, airlines, motor manufacturers and coal producers have much to gain by distorting or suppressing scientific data, and they have the money and political power to do it.

In September 2008 it was widely reported that a teenager in India was so worried about the possible effects of the Large Hadron Collider that she committed suicide. Perhaps UKIP should campaign against all scientific research, in order to prevent any more such tragedies. Having based its environmental policies on conspiracy theories and anecdotal evidence, it appears to have reached this conclusion.

ANDREW DAY

Bydemill Gardens

Highworth

Swindon