Jon Snow, the terribly right-on host of Channel Four News reports from an unidentified energy conference and has some interesting things to say about climate and energy policy:
There were a number of big business leaders and European civil service technocrats present. The sum total of our deliberations was that European energy policies and practice are in chaos and we collectively face dangerously expensive supplies, as well as the increasing threat of grave shortages...
In our discussion, the answers to this crisis were grim. The first was for Europe to get fracking, right now, wherever shale gas exists. Going nuclear is a major option too, irrespective of disposal threats. Reconsidering coal was even talked about.
But there was a frightening enthusiasm to terminate all green levies.
Not before time, but whether the voicing of such opinions will awaken our political masters from their green stupor is another question altogether.