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Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan

My Lords, first, I wish that Ministers would not say that climate change is a moral issue of our time. It is not for a secular Minister of the Crown to tell us what should be the great moral issues of our time. Many would not agree that this is one of them. Was there any consultation with representatives of the very large body of opinion that does not agree with the consensus on the carbon situation? Secondly, I understand that the Government are supporting 24,000 megawatts of onshore and offshore wind turbines. Does the noble Lord agree with the figures that have been bandied about for the capital cost of construction of £90 billion, plus £10 billion for connection to the grid? Is that not a huge and uneconomic cost for plant with a load factor of only 30 per cent? It is the worst option of all the renewables options available.