SIR - Jonathon Porritt, the chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, has said that "climate change will have a devastating impact unless urgent action is taken to boost the contribution of renewables ... We believe wind power is a critically important part of the overall energy mix.''
He is selling a delusion.
The Government's target figure for Britain's 2010 saving in carbon dioxide emission by means of all renewable electricity generation in Britain is 9.2 megatonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
This amount is less than four ten-thousandths of the global carbon dioxide emission of nearly 25,000 megatonnes per year recorded by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
It stands no chance of altering atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by a measurable amount, and will not divert climatic change.
Professor David Bellamy
Conservation Foundation
Dr John Etherington
London SW7
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