Green policies are causing high energy prices

I totally agree with Lesley Flint that overpopulation is possibly

the most challenging crisis facing humanity, but I am afraid that she does not understand my position on climate change.

Neither the historical, nor the geological, record supports the claim that fluctuations in climate are connected to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Changes are due to natural processes quite outside our control, such as solar output, and orbital eccentricities, and sacrificing our industrial society will be to wear a hair shirt to no purpose.

To give one example of dissent from the consensus, which the Greens claim exists, but does not, the European Climate Declaration signed by

500 scientists states: “Current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy”. Another scientific group asserts that: “There is no reproducible empirical scientific evidence that the extra carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by the human population burning fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrial revolution has had, or will have, an effect on the Earth’s climate that is detrimental to the human population”.

We must reject the alarmist predications of the environmental lobby as it is an illusion to suppose that solar and wind can come near to meeting our energy needs.

Disaster awaits if we do not now row back on policies undermining our energy supplies. The immense cost of continuing these misguided policies will fall on all of us. All for a hypothesis which is false. Colin Bullen