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This madcap scheme is a recipe for us all  to live in freezing, dark 
homes while the report thinks we'll be pleased to pay an extra 25% - 
a quarter more - for the privilege.  I wonder if the public will wake 
up in time with all the other disasters around us.  I fear they won't.

And to produce such a wasteful scheme when the country hass run out 
of money beggars belief too.
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TELEGRAPH   1.12.08
UK climate change targets will push up fuel bills, warns Government 
advisor
The Government's global warming advisor has predicted sharp rises in 
energy prices as he called for cuts of at least 34 per cent in 
Britain's carbon emissions by 2020.

The Committee on Climate Change, chaired by Lord Turner, also said 
emissions should be cut by even more if an international deal on 
reducing greenhouse gases is agreed.

But as the UK shifts to cleaner fuel sources, such as wind, and 
introduces expensive technologies to cut pollution from burning 
fuels, household bills could rise by a quarter, he warned.

If the current UN negotiations lead to a new deal on climate change 
in Copenhagen next December, the UK's greenhouse gases should be cut 
by 42 per cent on 1990 levels by the end of the next decade. [This is 
an illogical remark!  there is no connection between the two at all -cs]

The significant reductions can be achieved at a cost of less than one 
per cent of GDP in 2020, and using existing green technologies, a 
report from the committee said.

But stronger Government policies will be needed to move the UK to a 
low-carbon economy.

The cuts can be achieved by cleaner power generation from sources 
such as wind, which could make up 30 per cent of the UK's electricity 
by 2020,  [This is a proven impossibility.  Wind cannot be installed 
at this rate, especially offshore, it is ruinously expensive and no 
windfarm yet anywhere in the world delivers moire than a small 
fraction of its 'rated capacity' - They're mad! -cs]  and measures 
including energy-efficiency improvements in homes and offices and 
developing more efficient, electric and hydrogen-powered cars. 
[piffling in total -cs]

The report said nuclear power could play a role in low-carbon 
electricity generation, and did not rule out new conventional coal-
fired power stations in the next decade.

It recommended the Government should make clear that fossil-fuelled 
power plants which do not have technology to trap and permanently 
store carbon emissions should not be allowed to generate electricity 
beyond the early 2020s.  [In which case who do relatives of those who 
die from hypothermia sue? -cs]

New coal-fired power stations should only be built with the "clear 
expectation and certainty" that they should be retrofitted with 
carbon capture and storage (CCS) by the early 2020s, Lord Turner 
said.  [a most unlikerly scenario.  This is another example of these 
maniac believers airily dismissing the costs as if swe were made of 
money - which as we all know now we are not  -cs]

The climate change committee, set up under the Climate Change Act, 
has already recommended a cut of 80 per cent on 1990 levels by 2050 - 
advice which has been accepted by the Government.

The report sets out the first three five-year "carbon budgets" needed 
to meet the interim and long-term reductions in emissions.

The committee said the budgets should include all greenhouse gases, 
not just carbon, but should not include aviation and shipping because 
of difficulties in deciding how much the UK is responsible for.
"Clear strategies" should be in place to cut emissions in those 
areas, the report recommended.

The report also said the 34 per cent target should be achieved by 
emissions cuts domestically and within Europe, and not through 
"offsetting" by paying poor countries to reduce their greenhouse gases.

Lord Turner said: "Climate change poses a grave threat to human 
welfare, the environment and the economy.
"We need to act now, in the UK and as part of a global agreement, to 
significantly reduce our emissions.
"It is not too late to tackle climate change,  [But HE is tackling 
G;obal warming which has gone into severe reverse.  Hasn't he noticed 
all the fihures of global cooling.  `anyway CO2 has nothing to with 
it -cs]  but it will be unless the world takes action soon, and the 
developed countries need to lead the way with strong commitments and 
strong delivery against the budgets.

"The reductions required can be achieved at a very low cost to our 
economy: the cost of not achieving the reductions, at national and 
global level, will be far greater."

He acknowledged that the higher electricity and gas prices created by 
investment in renewables could push a further 1.7 million households 
into fuel poverty - but said 400,000 could be lifted out by energy 
efficiency measures in their homes.  [the other 1.3 million don't 
matter, I sxuppose! -cs]