At Spiked-Online Ben Pile has a nice summary and analysis of my talk at Aston University a few weeks ago on the UK Climate Change Act. In the article he interviews Julia King, Vice Chancellor at Aston and also a member of the UK Climate Change Committee. King has some very interesting comments.

Meantime, as far as progress being made on meeting the targets the Guardian has this vignette in its Eco Soundings column today:

The government has just 11 years to deliver on the ambitious renewable energy and climate change targets, so everyone was delighted when the Department of Energy and Climate Change was set up five months ago as “a joined-up department working on energy and climate change”. Oh yes? Eco Soundings phoned DECC last week and eventually got through to a person who answered: “Department for, er, energy and climate control”. From there we were passed to someone else who said “Hello, department for business”, who passed us on to a recorded message which started “If you want to report a dead bird, press one …”