Canada’s long, green march

Re: Trudeau’s anti- physics long, green march continues, Gwyn Morgan, Oct. 27

It doesn’t seem to cross Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mind that enabling an economic recovery from the Covid-19-induced shutdown will be both difficult and expensive even without handicapping the country with attempts to simultaneously re-engineer our entire energy infrastructure.

We must return to a “new normal,” we are told, one in which action on climate change is put front and centre.

Trudeau is clearly not paying attention to what is happening in the real world outside of the ivory tower confines of cabinet meetings. As explained by Gwyn Morgan, wind and solar power have failed to make even a small dent in the fraction of world energy generated by fossil fuels. And this, despite the fact that there have been 300,000 industrial wind turbines erected across the world. That’s because, no matter how much the Trudeau government might wish otherwise, and no matter how much taxpayer funded subsidies they pour into wind and solar power, no modern industrial society can operate on wind and solar power. They are simply too expensive, too unreliable and, as explained in the documentary Planet of the Humans, produced by American award- winning filmmaker Michael Moore, too dirty. Even activists on the left of the political spectrum are starting to recognize this. Tom Harris, Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition ( Ottawa)