YOUR readers may be interested to know of a new, very user friendly and publicly accessible on-line project jointly led by Universities in Exeter and Paris, dedicated to assembling research and citations in scientific publications concerning climate science.

It’s called Cosmos, and references 1.8 million climate research publications and 40 million citations.

It also identifies the 500 most published and influential climate scientists from around the world. Readers can look it up.

This huge body of evidence strongly underlines the disastrous consequences of ignoring or down-playing human responsibility for our accelerating global climate crisis.

With the possible exception of nuclear weapons there is no greater threat to future human wellbeing on Earth.

I recommend it to anyone tempted by conspiracy theories claiming that climate breakdown is a scam, Conservative leaders who are tempted to dump the 2050 net zero consensus, and the political leaders of Reform UK who publicly and foolishly deny the role of emissions in climate change despite the fact that a significant number of smart Reform voters don’t buy this and have a much better grasp of reality.

Dr Andrew Blewett

Matford Avenue

Exeter