Letters: March 2019

I am amazed that the picture associated with February’s leader on climate change (Chemistry World, February, p7) has the same complete misrepresentation that I rant at the television about! The image is not of chimneys but cooling towers, which certainly look quite spectacular but contribute nothing at all to CO₂ global emissions.

This sort of ‘bad science’ is completely unacceptable in our publication, and is positively dangerous in distracting attention away from what is the second most important challenge to the future of this planet (the first is obviously the completely uncontrolled growth of human population). I would be delighted if the Royal Society of Chemistry took up the challenging topic of overpopulation with the same vigour, for then perhaps politicians would start to do something to save the future of our planet from this inevitable disaster.