Climate-change envoy Morley sacked over £16,000 mortgage

Sacked UK MP Elliot Morley is under pressure to resign as the chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, following allegations that he claimed £16,000 of taxpayers’ money for a mortgage that no longer existed.

“This man spent all his long ministerial career defending the environment, and lost his job by trying too hard to save it.”

Independent reporter Michael McCarthy comes to Morley’s defense.

“In a competition for resources it cannot be ruled out that military force could be used to resolve emerging problems that would destroy the balance of forces near the borders of Russia and her allies.”

A strategy document steps up Russia’s rhetoric on disputes over the thawing Arctic.

“It’s a legislative Susan Boyle. Everyone underestimated it until it started to sing.”

Ed Markey, chair of the US House subcommittee on climate change, compares the draft cap-and-trade bill to a contestant on Britain’s Got Talent.

“China’s controversial railway to the remote and restless mountainous region of Tibet could be threatened by global warming.”

Reuters reports that melting permafrost could undermine the tracks into Tibet.