It’s important to question ‘the experts’

I DISAGREE profoundly with Professor Bruce Webb’s letter: “Human Action Drives Global Warming” in which he is again critical of a recent letter from Philip J Milton and states: “Mr Milton is far from ‘au fait’ with the science of climate change”.

Not true! From various letters I have read, Mr Milton seems extremely well read and very much ‘au fait’ with climate change. Perhaps he has merely committed the cardinal sin of daring to disagree with Bruce Webb’s opinions?

Prof Webb’s letters have often seemed a trifle arrogant and condescending. May I humbly suggest that the problem might be that he has spent too much time in dusty, dry old scientific labs and lecturing youngsters and not enough time enjoying our magnificent planet, its wildlife and the delights of our much-loved and fascinating marine mammals in our oceans.

If he had experienced the interaction I have had with wildlife and particularly marine mammals in our oceans, he might start to understand where some are coming from and why we question his ‘scientific experts’.

Presumably, however brilliant they are, ‘someone’ is paying their salaries? ‘He who pays the piper calls the tune’ springs to mind – which of course, will infuriate Prof Webb.

At the first-class educational establishments I attended over 50 years ago, we were taught to question everything – not to blindly accept the views of professors, scientists, teachers or politicians. Dare I say, I consider I know more about wildlife than Prof Bruce

Webb?

Why don’t some of his scientific experts, XR zealots and net zero fanatics tell us the truth? They clearly want the world covered in wind turbines and solar factories rather than producing food, and our oceans covered in offshore turbines and ‘floaters’, as they see this as essential in combatting climate change.

Does the IPCC/Climate Change Committee/PNAS also advocate and approve of XR’s antics and criminal behaviour in London demos?

They must also take responsibility for the net results of their opinions and warnings of the “end of the world” scenarios. It is a fact that human health depends on enjoying green spaces, landscapes, seascapes and the interaction and care of other species. The lie that renewable energy is green, clean or renewable is clearly untrue and something they cannot hide any longer. This source of energy has been wiping out our wildlife and ocean mammals for decades – and still those like Bruce Webb, the Green Party and multinationals deny it. Slave labour, environments wiped out in third world countries and mountains of old wind turbines buried in the ground!

Incidentally, I totally support the queries from Gareth Jones and Mike Butterfield regarding the Great Barrier Reef and found Bruce Webb’s comments regarding a man falling out of a tower block utterly puerile and juvenile. Does Bruce Webb deny the seriousness of what wind energy is doing to our disappearing wildlife or that turbines are being buried in the ground? A simple yes or no answer will suffice.

Joanne Bell Barnstaple, North Devon