Globalisation, Climate Change and the silence of the BBC

Christopher Booker explains "What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar?" and it is not a pretty tale. Of course to the BBC 1,700 jobs in Redcar are a price worth paying if the Copenhagen conference sets out seriously strict CO2 reductions.

"Redcar will lose its biggest employer and one of the largest manufacturing plants left in Britain. Tata, having gained up to £1.2 billion from "carbon credits", will get its new steel plants – while the net amount of CO2 emitted worldwide will not have been reduced a jot. "