On December 7th the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which polices Britain's 2050 commitment, published a report saying explicitly that there needed to be much greater state involvement and control.

ECONOMIST: Britain can have clean energy or cheap energy, but not both

The war and the oil development were explicitly linked in a the February 14th report by John Harker, which was petitioned by the Canadian government to review this nexus.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The report stops short, our correspondent adds, of saying explicitly that Iran is developing a nuclear bomb.

BBC: UN nuclear agency IAEA: Iran 'studying nuclear weapons'

This point is accepted, explicitly, in the foreword of the IPCC report and it therefore sits, uncomfortably, with some of the comments in the investigator's report, made after an incomplete investigation.

BBC: Sir Norman Bettison