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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
Sir, The Channel 4 TV programme on "The Great global warming swindle"
(9pm 7th March) offered compelling evidence that the sun, not man-made
greenhouse gases, is the driver of our climate change.
Around 1960 I recall that the South of Scotland Electricty Board in an article in the engineering press, on electricity demand forecasting , revealed that once in every eleven years sunspot activity was a significant factor.
