I am grateful to Scott Marmion for treating us to a glimpse of the prism through which he engages with climate change (Let’s hear benefits of carbon dioxide, Letters, October 24).

Increasing numbers of extreme weather events - including heatwaves and hurricanes - and the destruction and loss of life they bring, the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, people fleeing their countries because changes in rainfall patterns mean they no longer have the water to grow crops to feed their families, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of puffins and gannets around Britain’s coast as changing sea temperatures affect their food sources, accelerated sea level rise, and all the rest of it… all this is a perfectly acceptable price to pay for having a sunny October in Woodthorpe. Now we know.

Christian Vassie,

Blake Court,

Wheldrake, York