Climate concerns are not irrational, they’re based on scientific facts - Yorkshire Post Letters

Why do some people label people like myself as a climate zealot as if it’s some irrational belief?

I know that the concentration of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere to levels not seen by human society. The measurements are clear.

I know that CO2 absorbs long-wave radiation that would otherwise return to space. The physics is well understood. Satellite measurements tell us that our planet's energy is out of balance, with more heat energy entering the top of the atmosphere than leaving it.

I understand that the planet is heating at a rate unprecedented in the geological record, and that even slower changes in the past have destabilised ecosystems catastrophically. Fossil records tell us this.

And I know that, as those in the tobacco industry did before them, those who benefit from fossil fuel income have manufactured doubt in the public mind, disproportionately undermining support for action on the danger we face. Internal memos that we were never supposed to see confirm it.

Can those people who label me as a climate zealot tell me exactly where I'm going wrong by expressing my opinion on this important matter? My views are based on verifiable facts and basic physics. It's logic and rationality that drives me.