I awake this morning to find my timeline awash with spam from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, furiously retweeting the launch of a report by the New Climate Economy group, a group of green-minded economists headed by Lord Stern and including such eco-figureheads as Ottmar Edenhofer.
In fact there were so many retweets about the report that I could only repost a few here.
The NCE report, which is here, looks to be very much "more of the same" - renewables blah, investment blah, taxes blah rhubarb blah. I'm more interested in the role of the FCO. Under William Hague's leadership they look to have adopted a full-on role as eco-campaigners. Which is odd because I thought abusing taxpayers' funds in this way was DECC's responsibility.
Somebody really should ask a question in Parliament about the overlapping roles of these two great organisations of state. "Could the Foreign Secretary explain why we need two separate ministries using public money to fund political campaigns. Isn't one enough?"
In related news the US Environmental Protection Agency has been exposed as working hand in hand with environmentalist activists.