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Porritt dismisses the detailed cost estimates produced by the Committee on Climate Change.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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"The pro-GM lobby has done a fantastic job in persuading the media and politicians that even the most modest GM-scepticism is tantamount to extreme science-hating emotionalism," Jonathon Porritt has written.
Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right Lucy Siegle 2010
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This isn't the only respect in which Porritt suggests we should follow Germany's disastrous precedent.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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Porritt is right to say that we could meet all our electricity needs through renewables.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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Before considering the case that Jonathon Porritt makes, "Why the UK must choose renewables over nuclear: an answer to Monbiot", we should ask ourselves what our aim is.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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Porritt goes on to discuss the hidden subsidy nuclear power enjoys as a result of the lack of insured liabilities.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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To my utter amazement, Porritt's answer appears to be unabated fossil fuel.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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Porritt warns that "considerable scepticism is warranted in assessing the reliability of estimates from the industry".
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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There's plenty more I could say on all the points Porritt raises, but I've already gone on for far too long.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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It's stranger still when you find that the two main claims Porritt extracts from Broadbent's note – that "the principal source for the committee's estimates" is the figures prepared by its consultants Mott MacDonald in June 2010, and that "Mott MacDonald produced a new report in May 2011 which pretty much contradicts its own 2010 report" – are flat wrong.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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