{"id":343566,"date":"2010-02-20T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5198"},"modified":"2010-02-20T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:04:28","slug":"60m-bill-for-the-co2-of-our-political-class-by-christopher-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343566","title":{"rendered":"\u00a360m bill for the CO2 of our political class by Christopher Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=9\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Christopher Booker&quot;\">Christopher Booker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>We pay billions of dollars to Asian countries for the right to continue emitting CO2 here in the West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One could not want a better vignette of the gulf that has opened up between our \u201cpolitical class\u201d and the rest of us than a bizarre little item which emerged last week on an obscure part of the European Commission\u2019s website. The British Government, as revealed by the EU\u2019s Official Journal, has allocated \u00a360 million of taxpayers\u2019 money to be spent on buying carbon credits from the Third World for the use of government buildings and other official purposes \u2013 so that our civil servants can continue to benefit from the CO2 emissions needed to keep their offices warm and lit. <\/p>\n<p>The Government has contracted to buy these credits, mainly available from China and India, through 10 British and foreign companies, including Barclays Bank and a branch of J\u2009P\u2009\u2009Morgan rather oddly situated in a back street in Oxford. <\/p>\n<p>Our entire Government machine \u2013 politicians and civil servants alike \u2013 is now obsessively dedicated to the proposition that we must drastically cut our \u201ccarbon emissions\u201d to save the planet, at virtually unlimited cost. But when it comes to the officials and politicians themselves having to make sacrifices, as our own fuel bills soar, they have quietly arranged for the rest of us to shell out \u00a360 million to allow them to carry on much as before.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5198\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ihnLvWM_CtBzk4DaJCbYqkn4dME\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ihnLvWM_CtBzk4DaJCbYqkn4dME\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ihnLvWM_CtBzk4DaJCbYqkn4dME\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ihnLvWM_CtBzk4DaJCbYqkn4dME\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/p_CkYMe0Bwk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Christopher Booker We pay billions of dollars to Asian countries for the right to continue emitting CO2 here in the West One could not want a better vignette of the gulf that has opened up between our \u201cpolitical class\u201d and the rest of us than a bizarre little item which emerged last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}