Green are 21st century anarchists to me. Global warming is an unproven hypothesis and so until proven I'm a total non-believer. We have had in the past global periods of warmth and ice ages, before mankind's existence and industrialization. In the late 1960's scientists were warning that we were overdue another ice age.

Oil, coal and gas aren't going to last forever, so I don't have a problem with finding practical cost effective alternatives.
We were one of the first countries in the world to have a national grid and also one of the world's leading countries in nuclear power generation in the 1940's and 50's.
Now China is the biggest builder of nuclear power stations with their 4th generation low radiation now online and research on 5th generation using Thorium well advanced.
http://www.stockmarketsreview.com/extras/china_launches_its_first_fourth_generation_nuclear_reactor_20110727_159211/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.htmlThe UK's answer is windmills that don't work when there is not enough wind and don't work if there is too much wind.

This combined with a carbon tax will get rid of any energy intensive industries that we still have as our energy prices are / will be too high to be competitive. As an island with one on the highest tidal changes in the world so this maybe, just maybe a viable alternative, but the only big scheme being considered was for the River Seven, but this has not been cancelled as the green's think some wading birds won't like it

If we had, had the greens and our current planning laws 200 years ago the industrial revolution would never of happened.

Now China has an infrastructure plan for roads, railways, hyro and nuclear power, we don't. Their GDP growth over the last 12 months was 9.5% ours was 0.8%.