A reader wrote to ask for more information about the BBC’s scurrilous failure to declare a pension interest in “global warming”. Here are some details in the Express, here is a link to sources of the information in the public domain, and here is some scathing analysis from a blogger.

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Blink March 30, 2010 at 20:40

Can we please close the BBC down now, please, just get rid of the whole lot of them. Some like Mark Thompson, Richard Bacon, Terry Wogan, Victoria Derbyshire and Stephen Nolan, oh and the other Irish git should be shot and then tried under the Misuse of Human Beings Act

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Mike Spilligan March 30, 2010 at 21:59

TJW: This came to light a couple of months ago, but it didn’t ripple out to the MSM in the big way that it should have done. However Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph made a blog posting on February 19th, based on a long article in Harper’s magazine (US) about the associated carbon-trading swindle. I recorded it, but didn’t note whether this is from the Harper’s article or was Warner’s own comment:
And here’s the great thing about it. Unlike traditional commodities markets, which will eventually involve delivery to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no-one. Since the market revolves around creating carbon credits, or finding carbon reduction projects whose benefits can then be sold to those with a surplus of emissions, it is entirely intangible.