FEEDBACK from Alan L. Shaw

Ref the article “Top scientists rally to the defence of the Met Office” (Times, December 10, 2009), top of second column

"One scientist told The Times he felt under pressure to sign. "The Met Office is a major employer of scientists and has  long had a  policy of only appointing and working with those who subscribe to their views on man-made global warming" he said.

Does this not say it all? Not only for the Met Office but for all government departments concerned with energy and climate change matters?

Does it not indeed explain why we are today faced with huge government-inspired (but not government funded ) expenditures on wind power, wind dedicated back up generation, wind energy transmission and distribution reinforcement, and offshore submarine supergrids .  

The last named  at enormous cost to pick up wind power from wind systems which are big enough on occasion to cover the whole of UK and North and Irish seas simultaneously and therefore provide no backup whatever on windless winter days of maximum electricity demand.

Also for many years, reluctance of government funded or influenced national engineering bodies  and universities to put their heads above the parapet to question publicly what is going on?

For lack of such democratic informed questioning the whole UK population is being plunged further and further into forcible personal   financing of everything from wind turbines to smart meters on a scale which must surely hazard the credit worthiness of the UK as a whole?

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