Ruffling the feathers of the carbon foot print brigade?

A strange day today. How to unload a 600 pound battery from car without a forklift truck, solved.
Had no car until I could move it. Question why would someone buy a 600 pound battery?
Answer 12 volt house electric system that is off grid.

Internet being funny. We could receive emails but could not browse online. How can that happen?
Answer to problem. Close down network of computers, turn off adsl modem and turn off network router. Restart in reverse order. This fix did not become apparent until after much head scratching.

Or are the spooks messing me around?

Thank you to The Leader for publishing my letter today which is below. It takes a non politician to say what needs to be said, this should not be the way. Where is the opposition? Siding with the government to hasten our demise.

Airbus quite some time ago decided non core manufacturing should go sub contract. All the shops I used to work in have gone. Magellan Aerospace formerly Trefn Engineering do lots of work for Airbus. Today they have announced nearly 50 redundancies please bear that in mind when reading my letter.

I said the other day to someone that I intend to remain a PIA until something is done about all the speeding traffic which unfortunately I have had to listen to today whilst removing my 600 pound load from car.

I didn't realise until today just who had signed up to the stupidness below.

I await a trashing in the Leader letters page. I hope Dominic Lawson's (ex editor of The Times) statistics are correct.

Link The Guardian - Cabinet sign up to 10:10 Climate Change

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Dear Leader

A letter for consideration, there are a lot of very silly people out there.

I read in The Leader with interest that the 10:10 Climate Change campaign is gaining momentum in North Wales. Can we look at the facts before this harebrained campaign goes any further. One of 10:10's aims is to encourage people to fly less. Do they want 10% less Airbus workers or Airbus aircraft?

UK's current contribution to global carbon emissions is less than 2%. China and India in the next year will make UK's contribution less than 1%. North Wales' contribution to global warming is an irrelevence. Cutting your energy bills by 10% is admirable but the energy companies will just raise charges to cover the shortfall.

Angelsey Aluminium closure is the wake up call for mass job losses unless we are very careful. We are in the middle of the largest recession since the depression. If the Private Sector in Wales which provide wages for ALL public sector jobs is not allowed unfettered access to recovery with improved bank assistance there will be mass unemployment and large shortfalls in money available for pensions and healthcare.

This campaign is madness, it is time to wake up before Wales becomes a nation of sheep farmers. China and India will be laughing all the way to the bank. The time for this campaign is when we return to prosperity not whilst we are down on our knees.

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

global carbon emissions figures taken from The Sunday Times

" When the wind power blows jobs will fall" by Dominic Lawson.