Sir David King is, as you probably know, the Chief Scientific Advisor to HMG. He’s also the guy who said that climate change is more of a threat than terrorism (which I think means that all SUVs are now under house arrest).
A welcome outbreak of common sense from him yesterday:

A new generation of safe nuclear power plants and coal-fired stations
that capture their carbon emissions could solve the problem of global
warming, Prof Sir David King, the Government’s chief scientist said
yesterday.

He goes on to mention pebble bed technology and generally sound like a scientist. We have a problem, here are the potential solutions. As he didn’t note but I shall, if we raised our electricty generation from 23% nuclear (20% domestic, 3% nuclear from France) to 80% nuclear, like France, we would hit and beyond our Kyoto targets rather more cheaply than we are covering the land with windmills (Well, let me correct that slightly, I assume on no evidence that we would. If anyone has the actual figures do please let me know.). Plus we would enrage Jonthan Porritt, a good thing in itself.

Andrei Illarionov was also amusing:

The proceedings of leading climate scientists has been
dogged by constant questions and interruptions from an economist, Dr
Andrei Illarionov, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin of Russia who
describes himself as a "climate optimist".
Dr
Illarionov said that the observed warming of the past 30 years was
likely to be the result of the kind of natural variation in climate
which made Europe hotter than it is now 1,000 years ago and at the time
of the Romans, when red wine was grown in Britain.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the recent paper by Ross McKitrick (apparently) disproving Mann’s Hockey Stick of temperatures is going to play out. On which subject Tim Lambert has an excellent parody of well, a site I know well and write for. I disagree, of course, but good parody is good parody.