Carbon emissions

As a converted sceptic about global warming, I am now even more convinced about the need for contol of carbon emissions.

This graph from the BBC shows the problem, and there are not many solutions. Quite obviously, emission reduction is the first target with the need to cut car usage, wasted electricity and dirty fuels on land and at sea providing a good start to stabilising the situation.

The problem will be as the "Third World" booms and expects a "First World" standard of living i.e. energy use and availability, when the graph will start to grow again.

Sadly, the Government believe that nuclear is the answer. It is not. But unless something is done soon to encourage renewables, nuclear will be the only way to keep the lights on. It is this that Tony Blair is pinning his hopes on - despair will force us to grudgingly accept nuclear.

Not here, it won't.

With all the will in the world, we still need good luck to turn renewables into an essential and major part of the energy supply in the UK, and if the choice is between turbines, tidal and wave power (and the impact they will have) or nuclear, I know where I stand.

That is the choice we are facing. Where do you stand?