Going green will cost us

THE drive to ‘go green’ which J Littletown advocates (‘To save our planet we must act right now,’

Viewpoints, November 24), will give us all higher fuel bills and leave us greatly impoverished.

It will make motoring and foreign holidays much more expensive, and leave us with a countryside scarred by wind turbines.

And why? Because scientists got their sums wrong and scared the world silly with a story about catastrophic man-made global warming.

The doomsday reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were based on computer models which predicted runaway global warming – but the planet has stubbornly refused to heat up anywhere near as much as they’d warned.

In the name of saving the planet, a purge has begun on carbon dioxide, the benign gas which we exhale and which is so good for plant growth it has caused the planet to ‘green’ by an extraordinary 14 per cent in the last 30 years.

And in any case, according to research by Dr Bjorn Lomborg, a former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen, using the UN’s own figures, even if every country in the world sticks to its Paris carbon reduction targets, the result will be, at best, a drop in global temperatures by the end of the century of about one fifth of a degree.

The war on carbon dioxide has resulted in a massive global decarbonisation industry worth around £1trillion a year. Well-off capitalists (who continue to fly around the world in jet planes and live extravagant lifestyles as if climate change had never happened) have cashed in by espousing green ideas, but most of us have become much poorer, because we are being forced to use expensive ‘renewables’ instead of cheap, abundant fossil fuels. B Lambert, Droylsden