I have just read a rather well worded blog entry by electric car enthusiast and some-time service mechanoid Robert Llewelyn. As you’ll read for yourselves, Mr. Llewelyn writes about James Delingpole (he who claimed to be intellectually raped by Sir Paul Nurse and the BBC’s Horizon), something called the Daily Telegraph and how they both choose to report on climate change.

Well, I say ‘report’ – ‘man screaming at a tree’ is how Mr. Llewelyn puts it. His blog did raise an interesting point for me though. Climate change skeptics more often that not cast doubt on the effectiveness of renewable energy sources, which, even if you are a climate change skeptic, is a rather odd position to uphold if you start to consider the implications. The alternative in most cases is to rely on fossil fuels, the majority of which are not sourced in the UK. This obviously means they have to be imported, significantly, from countries which are not the UK. So my question to the climate skeptics is this:

Regardless of whether you agree anthropological climate change is taking place or not, what possible justification can there be for sourcing the majority of our energy needs, third in our survival requirements after water and food, from other regions of the globe when we have the real potential to produce it here?

Answers on a postcard please, to that infinitely renewable source of hot air, the Daily Telegraph.

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