BBC NEWS | UK | 'Struggle' to meet UK renewable targets

Andrew Bainbridge, the head of Britain's Major Energy Users Council, appears physically pained when he discusses the British government's plans for a vast increase in renewable power generation.

"I remember having lunch on the sea front at Great Yarmouth, and watching a bank of windmills not turning for one hour, and I thought, please, please can we have some nuclear plants, before the lights go out," he told a recent meeting organised by the think tank Open Europe.

"It is not feasible," he added, "to diversify away from fossil fuel dependence to reduce carbon emissions so quickly, in pursuit of arbitrary, politically determined targets of questionable practicality."

So why is it getting colder if the planet is overheating? | The Australian

James Randerson in Britain's The Guardian says just because it's getting chilly doesn't mean the globe isn't warming
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But the Met Office made a fuss when it was predicting a hot year, as BBC World reported on January 4, 2007:
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Climate-resistance.org responds to both articles on December 5: