I’m accused of being a doomsayer!

I have replied as follows to a letter in the Yorkshire Post accusing me of being a doomsayer.

Dear Editor

Neil Bryce accuses me of being a doomsayer (Yorkshire Post 13/12/25). My motivation for writing about climate change is not to frighten people, but to do the job the media is currently failing to do, which is to inform them of the urgent need for Governments to act to reduce consumption of fossil fuels and meat. When readers understand the catastrophic threat that climate tipping points pose to us, they will lobby decision-makers, join demonstrations, make lifestyle changes, and vote for politicians who will prioritise climate action. Evidence is emerging that we are at much greater risk of reaching key tipping points, such as the collapse of the ocean current that gives us mild winters in the UK (the AMOC). Once breached, there would be no turning back and the longer-term implications for UK agriculture would be catastrophic. Climate change is not just affecting people overseas. It’s coming for all of us.

I wonder what Neil Bryce’s motivation is, trying to convince us that the world’s climate scientists have got it wrong? Does he have financial interests in the oil industry? Does he have a death wish for future generations?  Why is he trying to stop the actions that could at least delay the worst effects of climate change?

As for Neil Bryce’s science, a quick Google of the research he quotes (Lindzen & Choi 2009) shows it has been completely discredited, so I will not bore readers with the details. I  request, in future, that the editor Googles scientific references and ignores letters peddling pseudoscience and misinformation. 

Yours sincerely

Graham Wroe

Here is Neil Bryce’s letter.

Spreading fear

Yorkshire Post 13 Dec 2025

Neil J Bryce, Gateshaw, Kelso.

Graham Wroe continues expressing his and fellow doomsayers concerns about imminent calamitous climatic ‘tipping points’ and that all nations must double down on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels (TYP, October 28 & December 4).

He maintains that failure to do so will result in increasingly extreme disruption of weather patterns and long-term climate, ocean currents and irreversible environmental and human suffering. In order to ramp up levels of popular concern, false climate prophets decided that they needed to ‘create fear’ and have subsequently used increasingly alarming phraseology.

What began as simple climate change has, according to UN Secretary General Antonion Guterres, become an “era of global boiling”. Among numerous ‘tipping point’ predictions that have failed to materialise have been the imminent demise of polar bears in an ice-free Arctic, global famine and island nations disappearing beneath rising seas.

Furthermore despite robust evidence to the contrary Mr Wroe continues to believe that coral reefs are dying due to warming seas. They have survived numerous fluctuations in ocean temperature over the millennia.

There remains a persistent refusal to recognise that carbon dioxide, for all its importance to life, is a trace greenhouse gas that constitutes just 0.04 per cent of all atmospheric gases and its warming influence is dwarfed by the complex interactions between water vapour, cosmic rays (from distant exploding stars) and solar magnetic activity.

We all know that CO2 concentration has risen by around 140 parts per million since 1750. However, another significant body of scientific research concludes that the warming impact has reached a ‘saturation’ level meaning that more CO2 can have no impact on future temperature rise (Lindzen & Choi 2009).

Contrary to the much publicised ‘extreme weather events’ whether droughts, floods, hurricanes, heatwaves or wildfires, a recent major scientific review, Quantifying the Climate Crisis, has determined that apart from a few isolated instances there are no discernible global signals of any increases.