The stupidest reply yet

I sent a Letter to the head poncho in Scotland explaining how Scotland would be particularly susceptible to the rapid onset global cooling that has occurred numerous times around 10,000 years after the end of the ice age.
As you can see, the letter I received made no mention of the massive cooling effects – indeed “cooling” is not even mentioned, so I doubt they even read the email. Instead it is a bullshitting reply about the totally separate and even by their own figures insignificant and currently not happening warming from CO2.
In other words, a factually wrong, copy and paste response from someone who is so clueless of the subject they wouldn’t know the difference between global cooling and a doughnut.
I have asked for someone who actually understands the subject to reply to my original letter
Our ref: 2016/0006508
16 March 2016
Dear Mr Haseler
Thank you for your correspondence of 18 February to the First Minister regarding climate
change. I have been asked to reply. The Scottish Government’s approach to climate change is based on the best available evidence used in the international decision making process, and the evidence is clear that the global climate is changing. Long-term trends continue to indicate global temperatures are increasing and the World Meteorological Organization advised in January that 2015 was the hottest year on record, with the years 2011-2015 the warmest five year period on record. The causes of climate change are set out clearly in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, which states that greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activities are extremely likely [95-100% probability] to have been the dominant cause of observed warming since the 1950s, and that warming will continue in the absence of significant emission reductions. The Report considers the role of solar activity and finds that changes made only a small contribution to the net radiative forcing throughout the last century, and that there is high confidence that 21st century solar forcing will have a much smaller impact than the projected increased forcing due to greenhouse gases. Based on the strong scientific evidence of human-induced climate change driven by emissions of greenhouse gases, the international community is taking action through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent international climate  change summit in Paris in December 2015 resulted in the first legally binding global agreement on climate change which calls for a global peaking of emissions as soon as possible, with rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with the best available science. The Scottish Government is committed to playing its part in global efforts to tackle climate change, and to meeting the ambitious targets to reduce Scotland’s emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 42% by 2020, and 80% by 2050, set through the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. I hope this is helpful in assuring you that the Scottish Government is committed to playing a leading role in international efforts to tackle climate change, based on the widely accepted
science used in the international decision making process. Yours sincerely, OLIVER ARCHER

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5 Responses to The stupidest reply yet

  1. Oliver Archer joined Jeffrey Archer as a writer of fiction.

  2. Casey says:

    The common factor in dealing with ACC believers and fanatic:
    You KNOW they aren’t really reading your words; once they find out you’re sceptical of “man made” climate change, their blinkers slam shut over their eyes… and brain.

  3. TedL says:

    That it rains so much in Scotland must be the reason that you refer to the top man as the head poncho. 😉

  4. A C Osborn says:

    The force is strong in this one.

  5. catweazle666 says:

    “The causes of climate change are set out clearly in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report”
    The last time I read it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report was so hedged around with ifs, buts, coulds, mights and maybes that it didn’t actually state anything at all.
    But I’m not a politician, so how would I know…

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