Sir - John Kinory (Letters, May 16) agrees wind turbines are an unsightly folly but disputes that the fact global temperatures had gone down as often as up is relevant to the argument about climate change.

That's because all true believers know that whilst climate variations have indeed occurred since the world began, and for billions of years before humans, let alone 4x4s, even existed, this time it's different: it's us wot dun it.

Since there are far more of us culprits now than there ever were, he says, quoting history is just sleight of hand; it's only what is happening right now that should carry weight.

But that helps the sceptics' case even more than history does. What is happening now - and for the foreseeable future, as even the Hadley Centre, one of the leading oracles of the cult, admits - is no temperature increases at all.

Of course, "inconvenient truths" like this won't deter true climate change warriors. Just as the original dodgy dossier came complete with aerial photographs of the weapons of mass destruction Saddam didn't have, so the climate change dossiers are full of pictures of summer floods and melting ice caps caused by the temperature rises that aren't happening.

This would be all right if it was just harmless eccentricity. But the remorseless peddling of the man-made climate change creed to a gullible public has already encouraged politicians to clamber on board and land us with inflated electricity bills to subsidise pointless windfarms, penal car taxes, and carbon exchange levies all set to hamstring an economy already on its knees. The "Nice Decade" when we could afford to indulge ourselves with fantastical climate change guilt trips is over. Time now to get serious and deal with actual real-life problems rather than these imaginary ones.

Michael Tyce, Waterstock