Godfrey Bloom

If you follow the climate debate at all closely, you will know that the Climategate affair has cast its shadow over everything that has happened since. The debate is by no means over, but the scandal has prompted greater division within the Green camp, and caused the critical function of at least some journalists to stir, though not fully wake from slumber.

One journalist who has emphatically not been sleeping on the job is Christopher Booker. Booker’s tireless effort to get to the bottom of the climate issue is remarkable. This week he reports that the independent inquiry set up to investigate what went on at CRU is itself made up from people who have an interest in the CRU staff being vindicated. As Booker explains,

Lord Oxburgh declared on his appointment that he is linked to major wind-farm and renewable-energy companies. He admitted that he advises Climate Change Capital, which manages funds worth $1.5 billion, hoping to cash in on the "opportunities created by the transition to a low-carbon economy", in a world market potentially worth – its website boasts – $45 trilllion,

What Lord Oxburgh kept quiet about, however, is that he is also a director and vice-chairman of a strange little private company few of us had heard of known as Globe International. The name stands for "Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment", and it describes itself as a worldwide network to lobby governments to take more drastic action on climate change

It gets worse. It turns out that the embarrassed and disgraced Stephen “like a cab for hire" Byers is the group’s international President.

Blogger Bishop Hill points out that Oxburgh is also

• President of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association
• Chairman of wind energy firm Falck Renewables
• A member of the Green Fiscal Commission

Very "impartial", I don't think. But it’s not a huge surprise someone with such interests in the debate was chosen to head this inquiry into Climategate. Imagine that the scam was exposed for what it is. It would not be merely the $1.5 billion of Climate Change Capital’s fund that was endangered. The UK has been building its own climate change establishment. The likes of Lord Oxburgh, Lord Stern, Lord Turner, Lord Mandelson, and Lord May use climate science to justify the extortion of cash from the British public. The Green scam runs deep through Britain’s entire political class, through Parliament, lobbyists and the Lords, and from Westminster to Brussels.

It’s not just capital that’s invested in climate change, political futures are too. Each of the other political parties in this country – except UKIP – has hoist the green flag above their own colours. As David Cameron put it in 2007, “Vote blue go green”. Wherever you go, your choice is limited to slightly different shades of Green.

That is why the inquiry is not independent. When this green bubble bursts, it will leave a vast hole at the centre of British politics.

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