Green contrarian Philip Stott has some interesting observations on Tony Blair's climate change maneuvering, lest you think Mr. Blair has lost his considerable political wits in a fog of green. He summarizes as follows:
It is increasingly obvious that he is using the threat of 'global warming' to achieve three goals:-
(a) create the impression that he is leading the world on the issue of climate change by building an independent bridge with the Bush administration. This requires the by-passing of the Kyoto Protocol and replacing it with more practical and positive economic and technological options;
(b) force technological change with respect to both energy efficiency and alternative sources of energy; and,
(c) soften up the British public for the inevitable, namely, a mid-term return to nuclear power (this is necessary on purely energy grounds, never mind anything else). Blair is well aware that so-called 'renewables' are unlikely to deliver in the mid-term, but he has a big problem in the UK with the politics of nuclear power. Frightening the public over 'global warming' will help enormously with this, while, at the same time, splitting the Greens, pitting Lovelock against FoE.