FURTHER to Andrew Stephenson’s letter about global warming, (HAS, Jan 4). I’m not surprised to hear of further distortions of the truth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

As another example, photos showing the reduced snow covering on Mount Kilimanjaro compared to a hundred years ago suggest it has melted.

This is presented as evidence of global warming.

The truth is that the area is now drier due to deforestation and has consequently experienced less snow fall. The summit, according to satellite readings, is never above freezing so no melting is possible.

Similar other poor standards of “proof” are numerous. The supposed evidence for linking the Earth’s temperature to atmospheric pollution can be easily disproved.

Scientists are allowed to disagree, and it would be unfair to suggest that all the 2,500 IPCC scientists originally working on this project were somehow corrupt.

The global warming theory is rubbish because the research has been either deliberately lost, changed or manipulated to produce what is required.

Charlotte Bull, UK Independence Party, Darlington.

I DON’T think anyone has ever denied that climates change.

It is significant that the scientific communities of all the countries in the world are agreed that human activity since the Industrial Revolution has had an impact.

I am aware that there are phenomena which are not fully understood which have an impact on climate, but that is not a good reason to reject the findings and the conclusions reached by UN agencies like the IPCC.

It would only be in the interest of people who do not want to change their ways to totally discredit the scientific community. So far this has not been accomplished.

All that has happened is that scientists are checking the basis for conclusions they have reached in the past.

For my part, I am pleased that this country has taken a lead in taking measures to enhance green technologies.

Long may it be the case.

Geoffrey Bulmer, Billingham