Greens 'threatening' climate fight

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Sir David King, who is credited with convincing Tony Blair of the urgency of global warming, told the Guardian newspaper that tackling the problem without using technological solutions - including nuclear power - was hopeless.

He said: "There is a suspicion, and I have that suspicion myself, that a large number of people who label themselves 'green' are actually keen to take us back to the 18th or even the 17th century.

"(Their argument is) 'Let's get away from all the technological gizmos and developments of the 20th century', and I think that is utter hopelessness."

The answer to climate change, he said, lay in embracing technology and technological solutions, not rejecting them.

Sir David, who stepped down as chief scientific adviser to the government last month after seven years in the post, argued that nuclear power was essential to reducing Britain's carbon emissions, saying the dangers of climate change were far worse than those posed by new reactors.

Earlier this week the Government gave the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power plants across the UK.