If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.