Quantified reasons

If we are to be serious about combating climate change we need to understand where we can have a quantifiably useful effect

You published Colin Baglin’s letter which starts “Stephen David asks for quantified reasons for combating climate change”. It goes on to quantify some of the symptoms of climate change.

I did not ask for quantified reasons for combating climate change, I asked for quantification of the effect of proposed mitigation measures, in the context of their impact on global climate change.

If we are to be serious about combating climate change we need to understand where we can have a quantifiably useful effect. Doing no more than quantifying the symptoms of climate change and saying that therefore we must do something, is as futile as putting solar panels on the roofs of houses in a cloudy country.

Stephen David, Hassocks, West Sussex

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