Here at Rethink Energy we do not see our mission as protecting the planet from climate change. Our mission is instead to promote and forecast renewable energy. But in order to correctly assess the conditions around renewable energy, we do need to witness the political climate that renewable energy sits in. It is for this reason we have an editorial policy of writing at least once piece each week about politics, usually with a sub head of “A week is a long time in renewables.” This week there was a political instance every day, mostly covering the UK and Australia, but with reverberations to the USA, China and Europe. The key political issue in the UK was that a group…