LOOK OUTSIDE THE DOMESTIC BUBBLE
IAIN McIntyre and Ronald Cameron (Letters, November 6) need to look outside their Scottish bubble, which has a miniscule 0.15 per cent of global emissions or indeed the UK with 1.13%.
Mr Cameron, who has an expensive electric car on which he probably received a taxpayer-funded grant and possibly recharges it for free at a local authority point, should suggest what can be done about the 1.446 billion petrol/diesel cars in the world.
He claims “we need to learn to love wind farms” to stop floods, drought and famine. Those not on the climate gravy train have explained that the floods in Pakistan were due to mass deforestation of its watershed thus allowing the annual monsoon rains to carry millions of tonnes of topsoil downhill where it silted up the Indus river. China spent $3.8 trillion on renewable investments over the last decade but still relies mostly on coal for 81% of its electricity. Old King Coal is back worldwide as countries strive for economic survival.
Mr McIntyre says that Scotland should use its own cheaper renewable electricity. “Cheaper” is widely disputed. It is not Scotland’s electricity, it is electricity produced by foreign-owned turbines which put electricity into the National Grid. Does he expect the Scottish Government to set up a separate Scottish Grid costing billions of pounds using Scottish taxpayers’ money?
According to the UN report, all climate policies currently in place will result in warming of 2.5 to 2.8 degrees, not quite the success story that COP26 claimed. UK net zero by 2050 will cost £3 trillion which is £108,000 per household. Will Mr McIntyre and Mr Cameron be happy to pay this and also contribute to the $100 billion yearly Climate Mitigation Fund for developing countries paid for by the so-called rich countries and which India is demanding be raised to $1 trillion?
Clark Cross, Linlithgow.
• TWO writers are using climate alarmism against Clark Cross. Ronald Cameron mentions drought and famine in East Africa. Is he not aware that Zimbabwe is expecting a record wheat harvest this year despite lower than expected rainfall?
Both he and Iain McIntyre push the pie-in-the-sky idea of manufacturing hydrogen from surplus renewable energy. Perhaps the main reason why this isn’t viable at large scale is energy losses. An estimated two-thirds of the energy would be lost during the whole life cycle of this process, and this lost energy wouldn’t just be written off, it would have to be paid for by the public. High energy prices just now would be dwarfed by a hydrogen system.
Geoff Moore, Alness.
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