The Emperor's Clothes

Lord Lawson has written in today's Daily Mail about climate change and has again had the guts to question those who through a decarbonising policy would wish to return us to a third world economy, including the present Government. His think tank, The Global Warming Policy Foundation has apparently published an analysis by former head of the Civil Service, Lord Turnbull, who asks Whitehall and Ministers to consider the damaging economic impact of blindly following the climate change agenda. It is not as if Lord Lawson denies that it has been scientifically proven that increased emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to global warming but believes the extent of the warming increase is unproven as is the harm it might do. Lord Lawson also contends that Britain's decarbonising efforts alone will do next to nothing to counteract the warming as we account for only 2% of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide whereas China increases its emissions by that amount each year. It is complete madness therefore for us to be the only country in the world to reduce our emissions when China, India and the USA refuse to do so. By acting unilaterally all we are doing is pricing ourselves out of the manufacturing markets. To deny ourselves the use of oil, gas and coal, which are the cheapest sources of energy, is to ensure that we can only compete with our hands tied behind our backs . If ever there was a policy crying out for a u-turn it this one. Lord Lawson is to be commended for acting like the little boy who told the Emperor that he had no clothes. For the sake of us all, David Cameron, repeal the Climate Change Act.