Time to repeal climate acts

Sir, – Recent worrying reports suggest that a cash shortage is projected of between £5 billion and £21 billion for Armed Forces’ equipment over the next 10 years.

This highlights the vital need for those politicians in charge to spend our taxed money more wisely.

Military defence of our nation, surely the first priority of government, should not have to compete on equal terms with certain other demands on funds.

These include trying to moderate the climate, using unproven means based on computer model-based predictions.

So far, for the past two decades, the pause in global warming has confounded the previous projections of climatologists, casting doubt on their reliability.

During that time, despite rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, global temperatures have stabilised.

Therefore, recalling our nation’s tiny proportion – less than 2%, of global CO2 and greenhouse gases output from the UK – we could safely rein back the financially crippling attempts to “decarbonise” our nation’s activities, and give serious consideration to repeal of the very costly Climate Change Acts (2008, 9).

The disappointing usable electricity output of renewables which depend on wind or sunshine are also costing us dearly, as are our subscriptions to the EU, with little obvious to show in return.

Rational spending on health, education, welfare and energy generation are, of course, essential.

However, do we really need to devote a fixed proportion of GDP on foreign aid, for which it has often been difficult to find “good causes”, when humanitarian disaster relief may be all that is really required?

Our huge national debts must temper spending, but defence must take precedence, or all the other desiderata might become suddenly unachievable.

Charles Wardrop.

111 Viewlands Rd West, Perth.

The disappointing usable electricity output of renewables which depend on wind or sunshine are costing us dearly, as are our subscriptions to the EU, with little obvious to show in return