Climate change

I agree with Michael Miller: there is no proof of climate change. Neither is there proof that smoking causes cancer, but I’m glad I stopped. The climate debate calls for careful assessment and balance, not polemics. When I was science editor of Reuters, back in the early 1970s, this was an arcane topic largely confined to the scientific community. Some 20 years later I was invited as a freelance to run science journalism training workshops for the Reuters Foundation stressing environmental issues such as climate change. My old friend and former colleague Neil Winton had strong doubts about it back then, I recall, and clearly still does. I admired the way he was able to balance his roles as environment editor and motoring correspondent. ■