I was going to write in response to Peter Ford Mason's letter in the October 19 edition of the Globe, but it seems that virtually every week there is a message about ‘climate change’.

To follow on a little bit from the theme of the Dee, the silting of the river has, I think, been partly blamed on the cut made at Connah’s Quay, which could be an example of human intervention having an effect in nature.

However, regarding the rising of water levels, the river itself used to reach all the way up to the water tower at the walls of Chester but has not been anywhere near there for many centuries (thus not much cause for alarm regarding rising sea levels).

But what actually is 'climate'? 

The definition is 'The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period'.

Whenever we hear any mention of any kind of environmental matter, whether it is to do with weather or pollution it is labelled 'Climate' and often also 'climate change', this triggers a response in us that has been embedded within our psyches - a feeling of guilt mixed with anxiety, because we have been told that climatic changes today are different to any climatic changes in the whole of history and that we are to blame.

However, if you look back at historical weather you will see that it has always been varied, erratic and extreme.

Moreover, according to meteorologists, the information we have been given is back to front, and temperature does not follow Co2, but Co2 follows temperature - i.e we humans just happen to be here at a time when natural changes were going to be taking place anyway.

And yet we have been lumbered with these unhealthy feelings of needing to do something about it.

Most, if not all of the alarming reports use the words 'might' and 'could' happen (sea levels might rise to a dangerous level, for example), but there is always going to be an element of the unknown in life and always has been.

It seems more harmful to spend most of a life worrying about all the potentially bad things that might happen.

Pollution on the other hand, that could be a different matter ...

Rob Davies, by email