SIR – And so it continues. The relentless creation of wind farms, blighting our beautiful land and seascapes.

I was pleased the Committee on Climate Change has called on the Government to scale back plans to build thousands of turbines off the coast. But my pleasure was short-lived as they instead want more built onshore.

To sugarcoat the pill, such developments are sold to us as creating jobs. But building wind turbines is not the answer to employment or energy problems.

Recent research concluded they often only work at ten per cent of their capacity because of a lack of wind.

Let me give you a couple of examples – all of Scotland’s wind farms, running at 24 per cent capacity for their 20-year lifetime, would forestall 0.00002 Celsius of “global warming”. At a cost of tens of billions.

And the Thanet Wind Array is receiving £1.2 billion in subsidy – it will forestall negligible global warming.

Wind is unpredictable. Wind turbines are a blight. Up to seven per cent of our energy bills are now going to subsidise what will be regarded by future generations as the madness of our age.

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Main Street, Wressle, Selby