Aussie sceptics destroy EU carbon commissioner

Is this the best five minutes of radio in the history of broadcasting? I think it might be. Have a listen and judge for yourself.

It's an Australian interview with Jill Duggan, a British woman who you almost certainly won't have heard of, but who yet holds the economic future of an entire continent in her grasp. As an expert on carbon markets for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action, Duggan will help mastermind the EU's bold – and massively expensive – plans to reduce Europe's carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020. In the process she will of course destroy every last vestige of 550 million people's economic future: but until now – as is evident from her stumbling and surprise – no one has really called her on it.

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