Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

The law of unexpected consequences has landed in the Blair New World in the wake of the moral posturing that is the Kyoto treaty. Having signed up to the idea that global warming is the 21^st century version of Godzilla, promising to reduce carbon emissions by 65 percent by 2060 and rejecting the approach of other governments of not taking such promises seriously, the government is learning the hard way that ordering people to put in fluorescent light bulbs and covering the whole of Dorset with windmills is to energy policy what the Sinclair C5 was to mass transportation.

Aside from having to admit publicly that the Kyoto targets are impossible to attain, Mr. Blair is now in the ironic position of telling the environmentalists that if they really want to treat global warming as both prediction of doom and established fact, they're going to have to embrace nuclear power as well-- and perhaps on a massive scale, as it is the only energy source that can both meet the needs of the nation and produce zero carbon emissions.

Watching the Green lobby squirm on this hook will be fun. It's like telling Gordon Brown he has to give Tony Blair a big, wet kiss.