Credit due to Jackie Ashley today (not a phrase you would normally expect to find here). She has noticed, as that Taskforce on the Climate Challenge managed not to, that nuclear power is something that needs to be discussed when thinking about global warming:

Sustainable energy means,
in practice, ugly wind farms across the countryside; that one-time
bugbear nuclear power is again being discussed; and the "great car
economy" will have to be confronted.

There is also something a little scary about this:

Yet there are reasons to
hope that Tony Blair will do more than make a few high-minded speeches.
Some of those reasons are direct and personal: his son Euan has
apparently been badgering his father on the issue, and Blair Senior
made coded references to the fact in a speech last year, saying that
"on climate change, it is parents who should listen to their children".

I can just about manage to swallow the use ofthe phrase "we are doing it for the children", for while it usually masks some abhorrence, it is at least true, that the motivating force of humanity is to do things for our offspring. But to do what our children tell us? On this, as we are told, the most important subject we have, one that is highly technical and complex?