Climate clowns?
The revelation that Scotland’s claim to have 25 per cent of Europe’s offshore wind power potential is false will come as no surprise to observers monitoring the credibility and transparency of the Scottish Government. With the true figure reckoned to be in the 4-6 per cent range, one must ask whether the failure to update this statistic has been intentional or can be put down to incompetence.
Such false figures certainly helped Nicola Sturgeon’s grandstanding on the world stage as she rubbed shoulders with similar self-styled “world leaders” in Egypt seeking emission agreements which could have been finalised via Zoom and not required so many carbon footprints.
Climate change is a major threat to the future of the planet and its inhabitants but the most worrying aspect is that the major polluters don’t seem to be interested in taking it seriously, making Scotland’s contribution to fighting climate change nothing more than a drop in a plastic polluted ocean.
Bob MacDougall, Kippen, Stirlingshire
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