Christopher Booker,Telegraph
" It might seem rather quixotic for a government that recently had to borrow £8.6 billion in a single month, in order to cover its ever-widening spending deficit, to then lash out £1.8 billion in foreign aid to build wind turbines in Mexico to supply Walmart with electricity, or to provide solar panels to some of the poorest countries in the world on condition that they don’t build the proper power stations they need to become richer.
This was what Greg Barker, our “climate change minister”, announced in Doha last week, although in fact we have long since committed this money under the Fast Start programme, whereby richer countries are pledged to pour billions into “climate-related” schemes in the Third World (a programme to which we are the biggest contributor after Japan)."