Don’t listen to the Greens and wild theories about climate

The best news I have heard this week is that a group of learned academics at Aberdeen University who are studying the renewable energy situation have produced a paper saying that wind-farms on peat land in Scotland are doing more harm than good.

Apparently our peat bogs are storing 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and they are 
more important than the rain forests It seems that making 
tracks and roads to get to the wind-farms is going to do a lot of harm.

When, at the turn of the century Tony Blair and George Brown were trying to concoct the Kyoto Protocol to control emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere we agreed to reduce our emissions by 80 per cent by the year 2050.

I thought at the time,and I am only a layman in this respect,that such a reduction would bring this country to it’s knees.

We are having to close some of our coal fired power stations and run down our nuclear energy plants.

Why do we have to make such drastic cuts when we are only responsible for something like two to three per cent of the total world emissions?.

Why can’t we spend the money we fork out for all these wretched windmills on clean-coal technology and nuclear energy, at least we know that they work. All the coal we have beneath our feet would save on imports and provide thousands of jobs

We have also just learnt that 
the earth is not warming as fast 
as the scaremongers would have us believe and the energy regulator is forecasting complete blackouts.

How right Gordon Smith (Yorkshire Post, February 26) is when he writes about our energy policies over the last 50 years. We seem to be exporting jobs and importing electricity, some of which is produced by nuclear fission.

Let us not listen anymore to the Green lobby, they have had their say and have failed. Let the pragmatists have a go who are not bound by some loony theory that we are all going to be burnt to a frazzle.

From: Paul Morley, Ribblesdale Estate, Long Preston, Skipton.

Wednesday, February 27 and a beautiful sunny, still, freezing cold morning.

I am sitting on a train between Edinburgh and Carlisle on my way home to North Yorkshire. It’s the sort of morning to be out for a good long walk before returning to a lovely warm house for a hot bowl of soup and a refreshing cup of tea. These last things need lots of electricity of course.

However, of all the wind turbines I saw dotted about like alien beings in the wonderful countryside ( I stopped counting after 50!) not a single one was turning in the still cold air. I wonder how much of taxpayers’ hard-earned money the turbine owners will be claiming off the Government for not doing their job?

From: John Noton, Kent Road, Harrogate.

Your comedy columnist Bill Carmichael is making us laugh again (Yorkshire Post, February 23). Maybe he’s not realised that potentially disastrous climate charge is an established fact, and that human energy consumption is generally agreed to be the cause. Given that more consumption of coal, gas and oil are hardly likely to help the situation, and that nuclear waste will cost our children and grandchildren billions to dispose of, his suggestion that we discourage the use of renewable energy sources is surely a joke. Isn’t it Bill?