Dear Editor:
Re: Flying ‘hypocrites’, Nov. 11.
Jane Vandervliet did a great job of exposing the hypocrisy of the COP26 attendees in Scotland – the largest contingent of tax-funded delegates (277 plus 17 press aides) being from Canada. They want us to lower our standard of living by stopping the use of fossil fuels, but are obviously unwilling to do so themselves.
As she points out, their “green” solutions are not that green and can have negative but not unexpected consequences. For example, in the U.K., which has relied increasingly on tax-subsidized wind power, a mix of windless air and competition for the world’s gas supply has caused power prices to skyrocket as natural gas prices in Europe have risen more than 500% over the past year. Soaring energy costs have forced some factories to shut down and a number of power companies to go bankrupt.
Germany, which has been transitioning to wind and solar power, resulting in much higher electricity costs, is now dependent on Russia to send enough natural gas to save it from freezing through the winter. It is also returning to coal as a power supply.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden is begging OPEC to produce more oil in order to keep gas prices down, while he shuts down pipelines and oil and gas production in the U.S.
Why is it that our schools, politicians, and most of the mainstream media give us only one-sided views on climate change issues?
There is certainly an abundance of reliable science-based material in books and on the internet to counter the views of the climate doomsayers who are controlling the narrative.
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch