Strange Bedfellows Indeed

The British government's energy and climate change secretary, Ed Davey, is fighting back against climate change skeptics within the ranks of his own coalition government.   Davey is a Liberal Democrat.  His party wants action on climate change.  The LibDems, however, prop up the Cameron Conservatives where, true to course, the rightwing climate change skeptics lurk.

Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, is to use a major speech at Clarence House on Wednesday afternoon to fight back against the increasingly vocal climate change scepticism of other sections of the coalition.

His uncompromising speech, seen by the Guardian, promises stronger action on global warming and follows the admission by his party leader Nick Clegg that green issues are now some of the most serious flashpoints between the coalition partners. The Liberal Democrats have long sought to be seen as strong on the environment, a core issue for the party's voters. But they have suffered setbacks in government as the Treasury has cut renewable energy support and an increasingly vocal number of Tories oppose windfarms, money for low-carbon projects and tougher targets for UK emissions cuts, all of which the Lib Dems support.