Fortean Times is the broadest of churches, with scope for many contrasting views, but Barry Baldwin’s column on climate change from a classical history perspective deserves a response from the science corner.
In “Weather Or…?” (FT431:15), he notes historical instances of hotter and colder conditions which cannot have been caused by human pollutants. He suggests that the “the overall pattern is that there is no pattern,” that the current climate change may be the result of variations in solar output. In conclusion he says: “I recommend a crash course in meteorological history to Greta [Thunberg] and co.”
