I always enjoy Robert Hayter’s lively contributions to the letters page.

However, I must take issue with his latest comment that Wiltshire’s wintry weather means we can relax about climate change.

Scientists named the phenomenon ‘global’ warming for a reason – and while the UK has indeed enjoyed the coldest winter on record, data published by NASA last week drawn from global weather stations proves unequivocally that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since records began in 1880.

In fact, NASA believes that Europe’s cold spell could actually have been caused by the melting of Arctic sea ice. Anyone who is interested can read this for themselves on NASA’s website: www.giss.nasa. gov/research/news/20110112/ Juliet Davenport, Chief executive, Good Energy, Monkton Reach, Chippenham.