Sir - Richard Delingpole, UKIP candidate for St Clement, thinks that global warming is “a non-existent problem” (Worcester News 8th April 1015).

UKIP, it seems, concurs with this as Mr Delingpole informs us that the party regards it as “climate hysteria”. UKIP, he states, would “scrap the hugely expensive and pointless Department of Energy and Climate Change and all the green subsidies that go with it”.

When I read his letter, it felt like someone from the flat earth society stubbornly holding to what he wants to believe in spite of the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Rising CO2 emissions are not in dispute, nor is the consequence of it creating a warming effect on the earth. It will take a little longer that Mr Delingpole needs to convince him.

World governments and the global scientific community are in no doubt that climate change is a real threat. They have set themselves a target of keeping global warming to within 2 degrees but foresee that this may be an underestimate if emissions are not curbed more quickly.

Climate change denial is seen as downright eccentric. It denies a global consensus that the issue of ever rising emissions and global warming is a fact to be faced and ignored at the peril of future generations.

That is why conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and other venues have been attended and supported by governments of all political colours.

Peter Nielsen,

Green Party Candidate for St Clement.