SIR - Mike Priestley takes his regular opportunity to take pot shots at politicians (T&A, November 4).

In his view, the Green Party: "appear to be relishing this almighty scare" (the Stern Report into Climate Change) to "flaunt their already green credentials".

Let me assure Mike that no-one in my party is flaunting anything, nor are we trying to "make political capital".

We just want to use this opportunity to move the Green agenda forward and urge Government and people to act on the warnings presented by this report and by the daily diet of facts coming from our scientific experts about the seriousness of climate change.

This is too serious for anyone to make political capital out of, but we have been arguing this case for many years and we aren't going to stop just because newspaper columnists decide that politicians should not say anything at all on the issue.

Coun David Ford (Green, Heaton) City Hall, Bradford