Mr Sheppard, of Beckingham, writes in News Views that “fear-mongering narratives about the effects of carbon dioxide have resulted in nonsensical expenditure of billions on the achievement of net-zero” and refers to net-zero policies on climate change as “welfare destroying” and “economically irrelevant”. On the same day the front-page headline in The Guardian reads: “Scientists despair amid forecast of at least 2.5C temperature rise”. This is the view of “hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists” who are members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Many of them “envisag…