Stone age utopia

In his letter Malcolm McKelvie made so many preposterous claims that it was hard to know where to start (Gaz 14/2).

Mr McKelvie claimed the threat of ocean acidification. The fossil record shows that when C02 levels were 10 times higher than they are now, life survived on this planet and oceans were not acidic.

Professor Ian Plimer points out that ocean PH is buffered naturally by alkaline rocks and sediments on the ocean floor. Ocean acidification is a total Green fraud.

Mr McKelvie claims that it is now cheaper to build solar and wind with no subsidies. Why then are we still subsidising these parasites and providing them with base load power?

Mr Mckelvie has been challenged in the past to show any plan or feasibility study for our zero emissions future.

All we get from him and the rest of Al Gore’s disciples are slogans and fantasies. Mr McKelvie also makes no distinction between particulate pollution, which is bad for health and the environment, and C02, which is an odourless, invisible and vital trace gas.

Mr McKelvie asks why any rational person would advocate coal fire power.

Coal power is cheap, reliable, the extra C02 emitted increases plant yields and reduces our dependents on chemical fertiliser.

The only current alternatives are gas (fossil fuel) or nuclear. Mr McKelvie says the stone age didn’t end when we ran out of stones; that’s correct.

The stone age ended when we increased C02 emissions to make metal tools. Mr McKelvie has demonstrated that the Greens are a contradiction; they lap up the benefits of fossil fuel, dams and capitalism, whilst yearning for a communist stone age utopia.

Marc Schellekens, Drouin