Robert Mendick, Edward Malnick and Andrew Cave,
UK Telegraph
Sir Roger Carr warns in an interview that the Coalition must give "some sort of support" over rising energy costs to UK manufacturers or else risk seeing businesses relocate abroad with the consequential loss of jobs.
"Not every country in the world has the same commitment to climate change [as the UK] and therefore you may feel commercially disadvantaged," Sir Roger says, adding: "That gives you cause for thought as to where you want to invest."
His comments – ahead of a CBI energy conference on Tuesday – come amid growing concern over the cost of renewable energy subsidies and so-called 'green stealth taxes'.
It's time this Government grew up over climate change, says Nigel Lawson
By Political Reporter,
UK Daily Mail
The Coalition’s obsession with climate change is damaging Britain’s recovery from recession, former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson warns today.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Lord Lawson delivers a scathing assessment of David Cameron’s so-called ‘green agenda’ and says it is ‘time this Government grew up’.
Lord Lawson, one of the most respected Tory figures of recent decades, accuses the Prime Minister of risking Britain’s economy to make a ‘symbolic’ point.
Climate change faces axe from the classroom in bid to strip science back to basics
By Louise Eccles,
UK Daily Mail
Climate change could be axed from the national curriculum in a move to strip science back to basics.
The Government adviser overseeing a major overhaul of teaching in England and Wales said the subject should be cut in order to ‘get back to the science in science’.
The move will please many critics who feel climate change should not be taught as scientific fact when it is still disputed by some experts.
