Letters September 30: Carbon obsession ignored real pollution threat

FOR years the wind industry and the Greens have had the misguided obsession of telling us all to lower harmless carbon dioxide, while totally ignoring the higher emissions of harmful nitrogen oxide gasses, a very real threat to health.

Make no mistake, for without carbon dioxide there would be no life as we know it on our planet. The Continentals know the worth of carbon dioxide by pumping it into their greenhouses to enhance plant growth.

At last it has all now been exposed by the cheating of VW (of all companies) and readers should recognise that diesel fumes contain a cocktail of more than 40 toxic pollutants from the cancer-causing benzene, arsenic and formaldehyde to the tiny 
sooty particulates and nitrogen oxides. Compared to petrol engines, diesels produce 
22 times as many particulates, and far more nitrogen 
oxides.

Thus the exposure truly shows the idiocy behind the Kyoto protocol in 1997 and the commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to combat so-called global warming – where was the commitment to reduce diesel pollution?

Perhaps we can put the lunatics back into the asylum now.