This week, Ed Miliband launched the Government’s new Clean Power Action Plan. But despite claiming that the plan would unleash “£40 billion per year” of private investment, his hyperactive and arrogant performances on social and news media also came this week with more bad news for the rest of us, bad news which his plan has completely ignored. This intransigence – the characteristic of all those claiming to be “climate champions” – combined with the very clear messages from physical and economic reality, amounts to a perfect storm. If the weather doesn’t kill us, Ed Miliband will.
The week began with the tail end of Storm Darragh, showing us yet again that the weather is neither our friend nor can be tamed, regardless of whether global warming is influencing it or not. In the aftermath, millions were left without power after high winds pulled down transmission lines. But most symbolic of all, the bad weather (for that is all it was) destroyed a new 50MW solar farm in Anglesey, North Wales. Yet Miliband’s plan involves more solar panels and more pylons to ferry expensive, weather-dependent and weather-sensitive power around the country. It was a bad time for the Minister with the “Energy Security” brief. Not that reality bothers Miliband all that much.
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