Scrap climate acts

Inquiry will go some way to preventing similar future outrages.

DOUG CLARK Muir Wood Grove, Currie On 28 March, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order unwinding his predecessor Barack Obama’s legacy on climate change as part of a bid to unleash America’s energy potential.

This included policy statements such as “the safe development of our nation’s vast energy resources”, “the prudent development of these natural resources is essential to ensuring the nation’s geopolitical security”, and “that the nation’s electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.”

The president rescinded Obama’s clean power plan, so freeing states from the obligation to cut emissions. In other words, the Obama targets to meet the US obligations under the 2015 Paris climate accord are now null and void.

America has 16 per cent of global emissions and China 24 per cent, so now neither are legislating to reduce emissions.

Time for the UK, especially Scotland, to abolish climate change acts and the destructive emission targets and concentrate on economic growth and employment.

CLARK CROSS Springfield Road, Linlithgow