But the argument does not seem to have convinced the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
The ministerial news conference at DECC did not provide that clarity as both men dodged the issue.
David MacKay, the DECC's chief scientific adviser, practises what he preaches in his once draughty semi-detached 1940s house.
The energy department DECC originally planned to fold the issue of gas into its over-arching Energy Bill published last week.
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In June 2010, DECC's then head of science Dr Nafees Meah gave an internal presentation to colleagues about communicating climate science.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says the UK still has "more than enough capacity" to withstand future fuel shortages.
Jurisdiction on energy output under 50MW is decided in Wales, all above that by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
During the first quarter of 2013, two fields secured approval from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), with three fields coming on-stream.
The fuel move has the backing of the Office for Nuclear Regulation and is supported by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
The DECC figures showed that wind generation in Scotland was 8296 GWh, up 19% on 2011, and more than four times the level in 2006.
He announced a study from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) chief scientist David McKay on the impact of shale gas on climate change.
Mr Osborne is also being slated by environment groups over an announcement made jointly by the Treasury and the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) on Saturday.
Mr Hayes' speech to the event on Tuesday evening was "well received" by the renewables industry and did not include the views expressed in the newspaper interview, according to DECC.
But the DECC report, compiled by consultants Deloitte, concluded that UK retail sector had "more than enough capacity to meet fuel supply shocks until contingency measures can be put in place".
I've asked Defra and DECC repeatedly since then if the two men accept the scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on which UK climate policy is based.
The DECC press office simply ignore the question, whilst a source at Defra told me it wasn't a priority for Mr Paterson to answer when the need to stimulate the rural economy was so pressing.
And within DECC, Mr Davey's position must be weakened in some way by the advent of a minister with views very different from the previous incumbent, Charles Hendry, who was massively popular with the renewables industry.
He also suggested reviews would be launched into the noise and impact on the landscape created by turbines - something denied by a DECC source, who said Mr Hayes had "totally over-egged" things in the newspaper interviews.
"The UK has incredible offshore wind resources and this sector will play a key part in improving security of supply and decarbonising our electricity generating system, " said a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
They might also be reading documents from the International Monetary Fund, the US Energy Department, the OECD (the richer country's economic club) or from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), with its Fossil Fuel Price Projections.
It's why there is a ferocious Whitehall row going on about new green energy targets: the Treasury fears they will drive up bills still further whilst the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) insists they will create green jobs for the future.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) Renewables Roadmap estimates that biomass could potentially provide between 68 teraWatt hours (TWh) and 100TWh of renewable heat and electricity by 2020, which is 26-42% of the total needed to meet the EU renewables target.
But a DECC source told the BBC's Chris Mason that Mr Hayes "does not make final decisions on this" and that he had "totally over-egged" things when he suggested reviews will be commissioned into the noise that turbines create and their relationship with the landscape.
The recruitment company's annual review of the oil and gas sector analysed the impact of the record breaking 27th licensing round which saw the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) award 167 new licences on more than 300 North Sea blocks in October 2012.
Chris Barton, head of international energy security at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), told MPs that "we will still need more and new oil and gas production, and the likelihood is that some of that will come from the Arctic", even "if we hit our 2C (climate change) target".
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