CLIMATE change denial is now dead and buried.

When ‘Climategate’ was fabricated in 2009 by contrarians and vested interests, as a way of undermining the many international reports on man-made climate change, these same vested interests also set up their own research group to prove that climate change was not happening.

The Berkeley Earth Project was funded by various sources, including charitable foundations maintained by the Koch brothers, billionaire US industrialists who have also donated large sums to organisations lobbying against acceptance of man-made global warming.

The project team was led by Professor Richard Muller, one of those who was ‘concerned’ that climate scientists were hiding data or exaggerating.

They looked at all the data again. They have now reported back and confirmed that all the data and the reports that they previously criticised are, in fact, correct, the earth is warming.

So, now we are all on the same side, can we please get on with addressing the key challenge of our age?

Unless you are an anti-anti-climate-change contrarian, in which case you need a conspiracy theory showing how the oil billionaires and the people they employed to disprove the science but ended up agreeing with it have been all brainwashed by hippie aliens.

Christian Vassie, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York.