AS was mentioned in an Echo letter on November 19, the United Nations World Climate Conference takes place in Paris starting on Monday.

The largest world climate conference in some 20 twenty years; delegations from 183 countries, many world leaders including Barack Obama, 25,000 experts from science and industry.

The issues at stake: limiting carbon emissions; world commitment to holding potential climate rises to under an aggregate two degrees.

There are then huge diversities in views.

The luke-warmers saying it will not be too bad; the sceptics arguing the science is unclear and unproven; the dismissers – climate warming is all non-sense; the alarmists – we are doomed; the fatalists – there is nothing we can do.

But then, steering though world clamour, many tens of thousands of scientists researching and developing decade on decade the climate science that gives us all the very best chance of creating clearer understanding how our world climate is behaving.

To support the Paris Conference is then to support world science. The best we have on the planet to work out for us all what can be done, what needs to be done.

There are then supporting marches and demonstrations this coming weekend in cities across the world.

And that includes Dorset Parade for the Planet in Bournemouth on Saturday 28. A friendly all welcome family parade around the Lower Gardens, for those interested on up to the BIC for guest speakers.

And that is in support of the Paris Conference – at the most traumatic of times for the people of Paris.

JEFF WILLIAMS Jubilee Road, Parkstone