Christopher Booker, Telegraph
As we know, arguably the greatest collective flight from reality in
the history of British politics was that brought about by Ed Miliband’s
2008 Climate Change Act, which committed Britain, alone in the world, to
cutting its “carbon emissions” by 80 per cent. Anyone with a shred of
common sense would have known that, with fossil fuels still providing
(according to the latest government figures) 84 per cent of all our
energy – including 70 per cent of our electricity and pretty well 100
per cent of our transport – while renewable wind, sun and hydro supply
less than 2 per cent, it was not entirely rational to set ourselves a
goal that could only be reached by closing down virtually our entire
economy.
Yet this 80 per cent figure was at the last minute plucked from the air by Mr Miliband, on the advice of a young lady called Bryony Worthington,
previously the climate change campaign director for Friends of the
Earth, who had been invited to draft an Act which was then supported by
all but five of our MPs."
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