Defending against global warming impact – Herald

I AM not convinced that global warming (Letters, December 16, 17 & 18) is
solely man-made, and while we do consume too much energy, plastics and food
we don’t spend enough on defending ourselves from the impact of global
warming. It’s as if getting your house flooded is your punishment for
burning too much fossil fuels.

In the next five years the UK will give £5.8bn to the International Climate
Fund but will only spend £2.3bn on domestic flood prevention. Britain’s
share of global carbon emissions is 1.5 per cent and China and the US
produce 40 per cent between them. The amounts should be reversed.

Policies which enable SSE to claim £600k in a month for not producing wind
energy are putting Scotland at a competitive disadvantage and create the
conditions for the recent steel mill closures.

We should be investing in shale, nuclear and hydro electric and not on wind
turbines, legislating for less packaging and more energy saving, and
spending more of the £5.8bn on defending the country against the weather.
And well done to the UK Government for cancelling the uneconomic carbon
capture white elephant.
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Allan Sutherland,
1 Willow Row, Stonehaven.