Global warming - more advanced than we knew
Only nuclear power can stop global warming a leading environmentalist, James Lovelock says. His call to support nuclear power was rejected yesterday by both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Lovelock believes that global warming is occuring at such a pace that there is now no time left to develop alternative power sources commercially, such as wind- and solar power.
Writing in today’s Independent he says that the attachment of the Greens to renewable energy is “well-intentioned but misguided”, like the Left’s 1938 attachment to disarmament when he too was a left-winger, comparing the situation to that in Europe in 1938 with the Second World War looming and nobody knowing what to do. He also critisises the “the denial of climate change in the US, where governments have failed to give their climate scientists the support they needed”.