From Tim Bristow, Ryde:

Julie Hutchison, of Extinction Rebellion IW, was reported (CP, 27-09-19) to have said: “October 7 will see the start of the October Rebellion, where we tell the truth about the situation we are in and the ecological emergency.”

The ‘truth,’ I’m afraid, seems to be lost in the hubris of what the group claims to be a ‘climate emergency.’

Seriously, how much do these environmental protesters know about ‘natural’ as opposed to ‘caused by man’ climate change?

This natural change encompasses much including volcanic — look at the volcano going off in Stromboli off Italy last summer — and sunspot activity, thermohaline ocean circulation, Heinrich events, when icebergs break from glaciers, the Dansgaard-Oeschger rapid climate fluctuations, changes in the concentration of the greenhouse gases of methane and carbon dioxide in millennial timescales, and bursts of cosmic rays increasing cloud cover.

Then there are the Milankovitch astronomical cycles of the earth’s orbits around the sun which have, over the past 2.5 million years, caused massive temperature oscillations.

Finally we have the man-made influence, so let’s put things in perspective. Climate change has always happened; the proportion caused by man is miniscule compared to ‘natural’ causes.