Britain is now in real danger of running out of power in the period immediately ahead, thanks to incoherent national energy policy, misplaced green zealotry, dithering for years over nuclear power (for which no amount of eleventh hour enthusiasm can compensate) and a huge thirst for imported gas which can only be met, if at all, at painfully high prices. Britain is now being once again described as the sick man of Europe, with the highest gas and electricity prices, the heaviest extra taxes and charges, the weakest gas storage facilities, a prospect of the most inadequate power generating infrastructure and the worst fuel poverty. Little wonder that scepticism about the climate change ‘crisis’ is growing, as critical immediate needs seem to be ignored or met merely with hand-wringing. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Howell-2008.htm