Hard medicine needed to cure the climate

I FOUND Dick Barton’s letter (‘Cool response to global warming’, January 7) as amusing as it was irresponsible.

His ability to assimilate what he reads on Google is certainly (I can safely bet) not as good as thousands of scientists who analysed original data and who participated in the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It is very easy to accuse scientists of being corrupt, dishonest and only interested in the money, but if Mr Barton had ‘googled’ brain surgery, would you trust him to carry out your operation?