
John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze
Here’s a good wheeze: prod every last inch of your own country, open the taps and become the world’s largest producer of fossil fuels. Then, when other countries start to try to develop their own resources, tell them they mustn’t, for the good of the planet. In other words, make them all dependent on you. That is pretty well what John Kerry, the outgoing US special envoy on climate change, suggested on the BBC’s Today programme this morning. The US is shamelessly using climate change to promote its own industries ‘We do need gas to keep our economies moving but we don’t need to open a whole raft of new
