UK's Looming Energy Gap Suffers 'Wind Chill'

Jennifer Marohasy: UK's Looming Energy Gap Suffers 'Wind Chill'

I've often thought that maybe the Kyoto Protocol could have been more aptly named the 'Don Quixote Protocol.' Why? Because 'Kyoto' sounds like 'Quixote' and, in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, Quixote fought an imaginary enemy of giants that turned out to be windmills. Today, our imaginary enemy is 'big warming' driven by CO2 conjured up in computer models. One of the consequences of fighting this phantom menace is the UK's looming energy gap. Instead of windmills, we have wind turbines. This brings me to a new report by the Centre for Policy Studies entitled: 'Wind Chill'...