LITTLEJOHN: What a gas!

Further proof, if any were needed, that the great climate change scam is simply another convenient excuse for politicians to bully us and pick our pockets.

The latest outrage is a plan to raise council taxes on houses considered insufficiently green. No doubt this is to pay for the burgeoning job creation scheme in the name of saving the polar bears.

Legions of officials are being recruited to search our dustbins and persuade us to stop driving and use public transport instead.

Bedford Borough Council, for instance, is advertising for a climate change officer dedicated to cutting greenhouse gases.

The post pays £33,328 a year and all the usual perks, including - wait for it - an 'essential car user allowance'.

Investor's Business Daily -- CBO Lowballs Waxman-Markey Cost

Climate Change: Supporters of economy-killing cap-and-trade legislation not only misquote the Congressional Budget Office's report lowballing the costs. They ignore how CBO cooked the books to get its numbers.

DOE’s New Baby Bell Labs on Budget Chopping Block | Wired Science | Wired.com

The Department of Energy will lose a major new energy research and development program developed by the Obama Administration, if cuts to the agency’s budget by Congressional committees made last week become law.

Green day? More like dirty brown - Telegraph

...EDF proudly reports that it “imports around 30 million tons of physical coal a year”.

I don’t know if there is a French word for “greenwash”, but the firm might care to look it up.
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Andrew Brown? Doesn’t that ring a bell? Yes, it’s the Prime Minister’s brother – the First Sibling, we might call him – who just happens to be EDF’s PR chief.

So here’s an idea for the company. Why doesn’t it “start making changes now” by getting out of coal, the world’s dirtiest fuel?