Letter: Carbon plan is pure fiction

Letter: Ever since cinema was invented there have been science fiction "catastrophe" movies of varying quality and credibility.

I could think of an idea for a silly sci-fi film. Let's pretend that planet Earth's crustal tectonic plates started shifting and suddenly the whole of the British Isles disappeared with total loss of everything associated with the UK.

That's silly fiction. However, if it happened, the UK contribution to global carbon emissions, at just under two per cent, would not be missed at all, and there would be no effect on climate change abatement.

Let's imagine another totally silly fictional event – that the UK alone in the globe was hit by such an unprecedented economic crisis that all electrical power production ceased.

The UK power stations contribute one third of our carbon emissions. So if we ceased absolutely to use all our UK power stations the UK contribution to global carbon emissions would drop from two per cent to 1.2 per cent.

That would not make one iota of difference to global climate change abatement.

Now let's consider true facts that are stranger than fiction: Our government ministers Ed Miliband MP at Westminster and Jane Davidson AM at Cardiff, want to cover our entire nation with wind turbines to save the planet from global climate change.

This is going to cost the general public billions of pounds sterling and put up our energy bills to an enormous cost for an intermittent and unreliable source of power in our national grid.

It is most probable that their mad scheme will never replace more than a fifth of our power stations' contribution to global carbon emissions or a fifth of 1.2 per cent.

You couldn't think up a better fictional theme for a sci-fi disaster film if you tried. I'm off to the cinema before the lights go out.

Ioan Richard

Swansea