Reader’s letter: Profits over green energy benefits?

M Roulstone’s recent letter (Wake Up To Fresh, Green Technology) uses stock phrases from the ‘alarmist’s handbook’ on climate change.

In response, I would like to point out that the words “scientific” and “consensus” have no place together.

As the hypothesis that somehow man is causing the climate to change remains unproven, the idea of “an existential threat to humanity” only exists in inadequate computer modelling.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 report, Chapter 11,concludes that changes in the frequency and intensity of most severe weather events have not been detected nor can they be attributed to human-caused climate change.

Real-world data shows no significant increase in droughts, heatwaves, flooding, tropical cyclones, hurricanes, or tornadoes over the past 100 years.

Germany’s biggest energy problems are not just with imported gas.

Angela Merkel made the most bizarre decision to close eight of their nuclear power reactors and by 2013, half of the world's photovoltaic capacity was installed in Germany,(a country with no more sunshine than Alaska) and this has effectively destabilised their grid system.

They also burn coal as protection.

Somebody should explain this to Ed Milliband, as he is the one similarly leading us like lemmings to the edge of a cliff.

M. Roulstone champions the opportunities offered to investors by the transition to renewables, and that green technologies are cheaper to run.

Opportunists and even our hard-hit farmers are turning to wind and solar installations because they are fast to install and the profits pour in without having to do anything more, despite their pitiful efficiency.

Wind turbines even consume electricity when they are idle. It is consumers like us that feed those profits without any choice.

Comparing household electricity prices with 28 countries worldwide reveals that the UK is the sixth most expensive, being twice that of the USA and four times that of India and China burning coal.

The overlooked point in this subject matter is that virtually all of it is unnecessary and yet will possibly bankrupt this country.

The world is slowly waking up to the reality that carbon dioxide never has been the pantomime villain that socialist-led movements claim it is. — Colin Southgate, Coddington.