Letters to the Editor – The Conservative Woman

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Letter of the week

Dear Editor

The thing that I find odd about the Nut Zero fans is that you would think they would like tariffs, as they will potentially reduce world trade and hence plant food (carbon dioxide emission), especially with parts and finished items not being shipped vast distances.

So, if the US rust belt gets back its lost manufacturing business (replacing the crystal meth manufacturing outlets), surely the total carbon footprint would fall.

And yet, they seem oddly reluctant to cheer The Orange Man for this.

Seems odd, because even if the tariffs fail to bring back jobs to the US, world trade being moved vast distances would still be reduced, and isn’t that good for the climate through reduced carbon, if one believes that particular piece of Jackanory? 

David Lawrenson 

Scunthorpe Steelworks a drop in the ‘climate’ ocean

Dear Editor

I was dismayed to watch a GB News item on Friday morning about the closure of Scunthorpe Steelworks. Their infuriating senior political commentator, Nigel Nelson, who always seems to be justifying the Labour Government, claimed that closing the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe was justified because they would be replaced by electric arc furnaces which were more environmentally effective. Well, that is going to make an almighty difference to global warming, isn’t it? Especially when the UK’s contribution to global warming, I estimate, will take 62,500 years to add just 0.1°C to global warming. How can this possibly justify closing Scunthorpe and thousands of steelworkers losing their jobs?

Jerry Wraith

Last Ditch Energy Solution (LDES)

Dear Editor 

Yet another mega-expensive green idea: Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) is being proposed that would store surplus wind electricity for up to eight hours. All it would do is add yet more costs to our electricity bills. We have reliable gas-fired power plants which can be switched off and on as required, but some not-so-bright spark said that wind turbines would provide clean, reliable electricity. They are not clean, since the turbines are mostly made in China using coal furnaces and shipped to the UK. They are not reliable, as we know: in the last 12 months, 11,000 turbines could only produce 29.9 per cent of our electricity, whereas gas provided 29.3 per cent. Turbine owners have already been paid £2billion in constraint payment to switch off, which was added to our electricity bills. This led to building battery farms only able to hold a fraction of the surplus electricity. Now, there is this idea of LDES which might hold electricity for 8 hours. Meanwhile, the world produces 65 per cent of its electricity from fossil fuels, of which 40 per cent is from coal, with more coal-fired plants being built. If it wasn’t for gas, nuclear and the interconnectors, the lights would have regularly gone out.

Clark Cross 

Linlithgow

Honours are a moneyed pursuit

Dear Editor

It is now to be Lord Gove in Sunak’s honours, and Sir James Cleverly. What about championing real heroes who are never recognised?

Jill Durant 

London

Climate zealots and their drivel

Dear Editor,

The climate change business gives meaning to the lives of many who have never before had an opinion about anything. It is their opportunity to be somebody in the pursuit of something unprovable, with the comfort of knowing they can never be found wrong in their lifetime. 

It is predominantly a hobby of the affluent, with their built-in sense of superiority allowing them to spout nonsense in the face of facts to the contrary. They are rather like the religious zealots of the Dark Ages, who could say anything to an illiterate population.

Of course, when they say we must stop flying, and driving, and eating meat, they don’t mean we… they mean you.

If these new zealots really believe the world is ending from a surfeit of carbon dioxide, surely, they should be promoting carbon-free nuclear energy, or research into things that might save the planet, rather than the nonsense inventions that plague us? But no, it is all your fault, and you must make the sacrifices they dictate. Silly people. Pity many of them are in Government. 

Malcolm Parkin

Kinross