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The carbon neutral argument used by those who advocate wood burning for energy can never be proved. Global CO2 output from it would have to be measured, and the corresponding re-planting of trees, and their growth timescale calculated and monitored, again, on a global scale. That is not happening, or we would surely have seen the bureaucracy and mechanisms necessary to implement such a massive task. One doubts if enough, or indeed any, trees are being planted.

Thankfully, as centuries have proved, the planet will compensate for our activities, leaving the concepts of global warming and climate change to occupy the chattering classes, and provide work for the pseudo-science industry. MALCOLM PARKIN Gamekeepers Road

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