RE: Fossil fuels and marine life GENERALLY, your correspondents who vociferously oppose renewable energy systems see nothing wrong with mankind continuing to burn fossil fuels; indeed, most think we should go fracking for gas and oil all over Britain.

Some of these letter writers maintain that there is no such thing as human-induced climate change.

Firstly they should know that, for all that the US is gripped with “fracking fever”, in a recent speech to the University of California Barack Obama himself said this about the climate change deniers in Congress, none of whom are scientifically trained: “I’m not a scientist either, but we’ve got some really good ones at NASA. I do know that the overwhelming majority of scientists who work on climate change, including some who once disputed the data, have put that debate to rest.”

What’s more, the US administration has now woken up to another threat to Nature, brought about by carbon dioxide emissions: ocean acidification.

US Secretary Of State John Kerry said at the recent Our Ocean summit that saving the world’s oceans was a vital security issue, and he urged leaders to take immediate action on overfishing and pollution: “Humans have caused enormous damage to the oceans, jeopardising the food security of three billion people on the planet… Most people under-estimate the enormous damage we as people are inflicting on our oceans every single day. He concluded, “The bottom line is that most people don’t realize that if the entire world doesn’t come together to try to change course and protect the ocean from unsustainable fishing practices, unprecedented pollution, or the devastating effects of climate change, then we run the risk of fundamentally breaking entire ecosystems.”

Are Pembrokeshire’s “renewables bashers” happy to see the world’s oceans devastated?

Perhaps the rest of the county would rather we took sensible action on emissions reduction.

ELEANOR CLEGG

Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth

Llangolman,

Clynderwen