Letter to the Editor - Government needs new strategy
1st October 2006
Sir,
Comments made by Environment Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday last week went largely unnoticed by the media despite the fact that his statement contained one of the most stunning admissions by the UK Government on global warming.
Mr. Miliband warned that “we had to be scared about global warming”, and that it was time for action as he considered the scientific debate “over”.
While it is encouraging that the Labour Government has finally realised what most ‘green’ organisation have been shouting about for years, it is extremely disappointing when the Environment Secretary only ‘big idea’ on how to deal with the problem appears to be the “mass scale” roll out of carbon-free fuel.
With only a 10 year window of opportunity to deal effectively with global warming, we can not continue to focus on bio-fuels and other low-carbon technologies alone to save the planet because no-one appears to know if they will deliver the required cuts in CO2 emissions in time.
How long before Mr. Miliband concedes that we have to be “really, really scared” because his Government do not have the political will to deliver real CO2 reductions year on year.
Mr. F. Bermann
Carbon-info.org
