Net Zero cost
The claim by Humza Yousaf that “the SNP refuses to back down over net zero” highlights the problem for the SNP in that it is now a party for the rich. The failure of the SNP/Green alliance to heed the warning from the Swedish Company Vattenfall that the costs of implementing a green transition have doubled means the First Minister cannot indicate to the people of Scotland as to whether a green revolution has increased in cost to £300 billion, fitting a heat pump to a flat will now be priced at £80,000 and upgrading a rural property now comes with £60,000 of debt.
Only rich politicians could disregard the problem as to whether the total estimates of a green transition are now over £800bn and push on regardless of whether it would crash the economy in attempting to adopt such levels of debt – a repeat of Trussonomics by the First Minister.
It’s time, surely, for the SNP to read the Perspective article by John McLellan (26 September) and come clean on the debt accruing from their climate change plans,
Ian Moir, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway
Skulduggery
Cameron Rose is spot on when he comments on the net zero policy both the Westminster Government and the SNP are pursuing (Letters, 25 September). The economic effects will be acutely damaging and no real research has been carried out on the impossibility of creating enough electricity to power the electric cars we do not wish to buy. We have a grand total of only 4,000 charging points in the whole of Scotland!
Now we see the irresponsible Green spokesman, Patrick Harvie, condoning breaking the law in pursuit of his “climate change” religion. It would be interesting to see what he would say if those whose scientific warnings about climate alarmism he represents were to take action of their own against the damage he and his extremist bedfellows would inflict upon us.
Scientists have been trying to make their argument that there is no climate crisis to such people as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, but have been ignored.
The truth is that there is too much at stake financially for most people involved in promoting the “climate crisis” to be able to afford to be honest. How much does Patrick Harvie bring in a year? £99,516, as you’re asking, and Lorna Slater the same. I read that Al Gore was worth $20 million when he left office and is now worth over $200 million. I don’t know if that’s true, or that Greta Thunberg is worth over a million and she isn’t even 21 yet! Wow, is all I can say.
Think what all the scientists at the University of East Anglia, whose hacked emails demonstrated climate skulduggery a few years ago, earn. That was swiftly brushed under the carpet, wasn’t it? Then, there are the salaries of all the other academics around the world who want to hold onto their well-paid jobs. It’s a little-known fact that over 97 per cent of scientists agree with the policies made by the politicians who pay their salaries.
Peter Hopkins, Edinburgh
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