No doubt the oracle is correct

I marvelled with the rest of Shropshire at the prescient powers of WF Kerswell from Picklescott (Letters, December 19). I wish I could always be right in my predictions, too. His family must be so proud of him.

However, his prediction that man-made climate change will be proved to be nonsense and all the vast sums spent on stopping it a cynical manipulation of funds by politicians, big businesses and over-qualified scientists made me pause for a moment in my admiration.

After all, wasn't it the biggest business of them all, Exxon Mobil, which spent years and millions of dollars trying to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change and which, in 1998, along with other big businesses in the Global Climate Coalition helped persuade US politicians not to sign the Kyoto Agreement on reducing world-wide carbon emissions?

Instantly I wanted to reassure the oracle of Picklescott that big business is on his side of the debate.

But what about those 2,000 over-qualified scientists in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who think climate change is a bigger threat than global terrorism?

Mr Kerswell, with his unerring ability to predict the future, is probably right about them, too.

Yet again.

It's amazing how someone can always be right.

After all, what do 2,000 of the best climate scientists in the world know about climate change anyway?

Huw Peach, Shrewsbury