Columnist in denial on climate change causes

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer clearly subscribes to the Bart Simpson school of thought on climate change — ‘We didn’t do it. Nobody saw us do it. You can’t prove anything’.

In his column (Irish Examiner, March 31), he used, among other sources, an outdated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from 1996. Back then, the consensus among serious scientists was not as strong as it is today.

The most recent scientific data indicates an extremely high probability that the causes of the extreme climate change we are witnessing are human in origin; there is, however, a possibility that other factors may also be at work.