CO2 cuts charade

Dr John Cameron (Letters, 24 November) rightly points out the futile charade that the Paris agreement on curbing greeenhouse gas output represents, whose objectives remain unmet by its signatories.

Its provisions, however are voluntary, unlike those of the UK Climate Change Acts (2008,9) which insist, by binding law, on an 80 per cent reduction in the amount of CO2 released in 1990 by the year 2050.

These Acts, rightly described as the most expensive virtue signal ever, raising costs especially to our poorest people and harming our industrial competitiveness were voted for by all but five MPS, all Congeon

servative. The huge majority in support, obviously moved by group think and gullibility, had forsaken common sense and realistic numeracy, overlooking the merely trivial proportion of global CO2 from the UK, at 1.3 per cent.

The costs, at the very least £300bn-£400bn over the years, dwarf any posssible benefits to us, climatic, scientific or financial.

It is entirely unrealistic that other nations might have been favourably impressed by such spurious “virtue” into following suit.

The parliamentary nearunanimity favouring these futile climate change provisions contrasts strongly with the present public and political polarisation and furore over Brexit, where, arguably less money is at stake.

Have our parliamentarians considered repeal of these Acts?

(DR) CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth