Smokesignals

Wood-burning stoves are now the biggest source of outdoor particulate emissions, despite being encouraged by politicians as a “green” initiative.

More than 1.5 million stoves are owned across the UK, with 200,000 more being sold every year, and it will be 2022 before the “cleanest stoves” are available. This is typical of “green” politicians making decisions before switching on their brain.

Researchers found that cooking a Sunday roast can raise air pollution levels in your home above those in city centres. Toasting two slices of bread caused pollution levels three times the World Health Organisation’s safety limit.

Instead of banning cars in towns we should be banning wood-burning stoves, toast, Sunday roasts and “green” politicians.

CLARK CROSS Springfield Road, Linlithgow

Ian Moir hits the nail on the head in pointing out the crazy finances of the UK’S “combatting climate change” by ending gas power to homes and, presumably, industry.

Even if we ended greenhouse gas power producing means entirely, no real impact on global climate could possibly result, despite our Kamikaze-like sacrifices which no one elsewhere would notice. The switch away from internal combustion vehicle engines is likewise to no useful purpose whether for reasons of public health or climate benefit.

Indeed, pending revolutionary improvements in electricity storage, electric vehicles’ drawbacks, including charging problems and fire and explosion risks, very greatly outweigh putative benefits.

Before adopting wind-powered “renewables”, their disadvantages, including intermittency and vast pollution, should have been recognised, as the world’s governments are seeing now, curtailing these white elephants.

Many regard our parliaments as acting like “madhouses,” and few examples of that exceed policies on climate change in futility and barminess!

(DR) CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth