Well I never. The Committee on Climate Change, which, we are told by The Times, is 'the Government's watchdog on global warming', has published a report warning the Government that 'lulls in wind speed could occur at times of greatest demand for electricity, exposing Britain to a greater risk of blackouts unless more coal and gas plants are built and kept on standby.'
Apparently when we all thought we knew that already we were all thinking bollocks. We couldn't have known it because it could only be known after the Committee had commissioned a report from 'AEA, an energy and climate consultancy', no doubt at vast expense, to tell them so.
Apparently what really troubles the Committee though is not that this will leave us all unable to pay our energy bills and freezing in our beds, but that it 'could undermine progress towards having legally-binding targets to cut emissions'.
But never fear says 'Renewable UK', 'the wind industry's trade body', the problem can be solved by building underseas electricity connectors to tap spare electricity supplies in other countries, and by having a "smart grid" that could automatically switch off our fridges and washing machines and draw back the power from our electric cars' batteries at such times.
It would be the funniest thing I've heard in months if it wasn't so terrifying. Don't you just love the way that for the green energy lunatics the only 'truth' that matters is the delivery by any means possible of their insane green energy objectives and damn the collateral damage? It's just like the old Bolshevik definition of truth - truth is what is good for them.
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