“But we must admit that we have failed properly to value many of the things that count most - a stable climate...” (James Cameron, ‘A banking crisis mustn’t take the heat off climate change action’, The Times, October 16)

Oh dear! My Daily Newspaper Of Choice (DNOC), The Times, has allowed some unmitigated climate claptrap to pollute the shades of its comment columns [‘A banking crisis mustn't take the heat off climate change action’, The Times, October 16].

The quintessential litmus test for nonsense on climate is the use of the phrase, “a stable climate”. Climate has never been, and never will be, “stable”. The phrase represents the ultimate oxymoron. It is a foolish human desire for something that does not, and never can, exist. How did The Times let such a piece of nonsense through?

“But we must admit that we have failed properly to value many of the things that count most - a stable climate...”

One cannot take seriously any writer who employs the phrase. It means that he or she can have no understanding of climate, past, present, or future. Have they ever looked at a geological or historical temperature curve? Have they ever heard of Ice Ages? Of Interglacials? Of Climate Optima? Of Interstadials? Of Little Ice Ages? Of, well, everything about climate?

Shame on The Thunderer. It is nearly as bad as the attack in The Jupiter on poor Mr. Harding!