THE increasingly vitriolic and personal letters regarding opposing views on Navitus have been entertaining, but miss very serious issues that affect us all, not just at a local level.

Climate change is not a belief system, it is a scientific fact. The Earth has warmed up by 0.85 degrees in 135 years as we are in an inter-glacial period, although there has been no increase in the last 18 years.

The UK investment in renewables and wind farms in particular is crippling the country financially. At the time of writing, the entire UK compliment of wind farms, both on land and offshore, at a cost of billions in subsidies from the taxpayer, are providing 0.2GW towards a national requirement on a nice warm day, of 35GW, which equates to 0.6 per cent of the national requirement. Including hydro and biomass, we have a shortfall of 93 per cent.Hydro contributes 2 per cent, pumped 2.3 per cent and biomass 1.4 per cent. This gives a shortfall of 93%. We are even getting 6 per cent from the cable from France, more than all the renewables we have. The remainder comes from gas (39 per cent), coal (29 per cent) and nuclear (22 per cent).

In the midst of winter in a high pressure with heavy frosts, with no wind, the demand is regularly 52GW. We need dependable sources to keep the lights on.

Energy security in the UK has now fallen from 17 per cent in 2010, to 2 per cent, predicted by Ofgem for 2015-2016. The government has also recently spent more of our money on filthy diesel engine farms to infill when the power cuts come, as discovered by the Guardian newspaper.

The new administration will hopefully not see us as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of political correctness, but will hopefully commission modern carbon capture and new nuclear, which is carbon free. And not build any more wasteful wind farms that do not work.

FRANK BAYES Parkwood Road, Southbourne