Tuesday 24 November 2009 - the plan so far
The US is to announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month's UN climate summit, according to a White House official.
Tonight our Ethical Man, Justin Rowlatt, talks to Nobel Prize winning physicist, Steven Chu - the man who is President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary.
And the tables are turned against our political animals Matthew Taylor, Patience Wheatcroft, Lord Digby Jones and Ann Redstone in the Newsnight Politics Pen. How would our heavyweights raise money through taxation?
Plus we are planning to take a look at the claim that police officers in England and Wales are making arrests just to get people on to the DNA database.
More details later.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Nov 2009, MaggieL wrote:Its no surprise to learn that scientists exaggerate and mould their research findings in order to enhance their eligibility for research grants. Charities overstate and manipulate research in the same way to attract donations.
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Nov 2009, barriesingleton wrote:IT'S A CULTURAL THING (#1)
And why should either bother with honourable conduct, when our leaders have none?
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Comment number 3.
At 24th Nov 2009, MaggieL wrote:Ó˯2
And what excuse can you offer for the journalists who repeat dodgy research and discuss the distortion in all seriousness as though it were fact?
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Comment number 4.
At 24th Nov 2009, stevie wrote:an investigation into the war in Iraq? The panel is full of yes men who went along with it, look into their backgrounds and it's a joke. It will be the same with Copenhagen in December, Obama probably won't turn up...never has a civilisation drifted aimlessly into oblivion...
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Comment number 5.
At 24th Nov 2009, DebtJuggler wrote:And the tables are turned against our political animals Matthew Taylor, Patience Wheatcroft, Lord Digby Jones and Ann Redstone in the Newsnight Politics Pen. How would our heavyweights raise money through taxation?
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I'll answer for them in just 4 words...introduce the TOBIN TAX!
(PS - you can tell them that they can have the evening off now)
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Comment number 6.
At 24th Nov 2009, jauntycyclist wrote:carbon trading may bring down australian govt?
they are right not to want this scam which does nothing except transfer wealth from poor to rich.
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Comment number 7.
At 24th Nov 2009, jauntycyclist wrote:5. TOBIN TAX!
is a stupid tax on transactions. not every transaction makes a profit.
any tax should go on profits made not on mere transactions that have an unknown outcome.
i have no problem with financial sector profits being taxed at 70% while they need the govt bail out.
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Comment number 8.
At 24th Nov 2009, barriesingleton wrote:TAKING STOCK
Isn't the underlying problem that immature, self-serving people are taking the decisions? If the sweet shop has a cash-flow problem, do you get a bunch of kids in to do a stock-take?
We live in a country that joined the EU for what it could get out of it, only to discover 'they' had the same idea. Doh! Murphy's law (can I still write that?) has given way to 'Brown's Manstra' - 'Anything that can be stitched up - WILL be stitched up.' But of course, if you can't manage a stitchup in a curtain factory, you get a Great British mess.
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