JOHN Searle of the anti-windfarm group Poole and Christchurch Bays’ Association (P&CBA) objects to me writing that the Navitus developer provides evidence-based information (Letters 20 April).
He insists Navitus provided no evidence on climate change. This is true. Nobody said that they did. It is the likes of NASA or the Royal Society that make such argument on climate change.
Coincidentally, these same two organisations were attacked in 2009 by a Dr Phillip AW Bratby for presenting just such argument.
Could that be the same Dr Phillip AW Bratby mentioned in John Searle’s letter? Is this yet another associate of P&CBA with a history of climate-change denying?
John Searle mentions two others experts in his letter, Dr Andrew Langley and Dr John Yelland. These two gentlemen have accused Navitus of breaking the laws of physics. Strong stuff. Yet it was these two gentlemen who were in error, attempting to amend real-world data used in an empirical equation to suit their own ends.
Are such experts as these really the sort that any serious organisation should be relying on? I think not.
DR MARTIN RODGER
Bloxworth Road, Poole
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