Here's another fine mess you got me into: Tories in crazily-timed green policy relaunch

Today's Daily Telegraph leads with news that the Conservatives propose to pay us for recycling our rubbish. Under the proposal, people will be rewarded with M&S vouchers for recycling in a scheme that will put whatever we recycle onto a database...

Now, we find the idea of anyone logging onto a computer what we throw into the dustbin to be somewhat sinister - yet it would put the Conservatives completely in-line with ZaNuLiebour's control freak tendencies. A purely nice-intention sounding continuation of ZaNuLiebour's Tweedle Dee...

Don't get us wrong. We love the planet. We love the environment. We think people should stop hacking down the rainforests. We'd love to see alternative fuels and energy technologies.

However, look at the timing of this latest Conservative policy announcement.

On both sides of the Atlantic, people are demanding inquiries into the science behind 'man-made global warming' after leaked documents - dubbed by some as a "smoking gun" - appear to indicate that there may have been dark forces and something untoward at play behind the science that has been presented as irrefutable fact for the last however many years.

In America, Senator Jim Inhofe, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is demanding an inquiry over the documents that have surfaced which suggest that the whole 'man made global warming' science might be a scam.

Inhofe has demanded answers else an investigation into "the way that they cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not."

Here in Britain, Lord Lawson has now called for a independent public inquiry into what has been going on.

The latest blow to proponents of the relentless 'man made global warming' alarmist onslaught comes just a couple of weeks after Lord Christopher Monckton became a global internet phenomenon. His reasonably low-key discussion in which he warned about those attending the upcoming Copenhagen summit having plans to use the environmental issue to form a global government was watched by millions of people all around the world.

Monckton's warning came at the end of a two hour presentation in which he sought to illustrate how data sets were being manipulated to fit the argument around man-made global warming.

Then come these leaks...

So now, like a knackered cavalry on a lame donkey charge, here come Cameron's Conservatives. Plodding into the headlines accompanied by the refrains of Dance of the Cuckoos, they really couldn't have picked a more inopportune moment to recycle their green credentials.

After the current hoo-haa broke at the weekend, there's a good chance that many of us are now completely cynical about the entire debate on environmental issues.

Sure, there is a difference between looking after trees (good) and not polluting waters (good)... and pretending that we can stick taxes on everything to do with carbon because man is making the planet warm up whilst maybe doing something with the data to make that appear to be the case even though it isn't (which would be bad if it were true).

Poor Tories. If one were truly cynical, one might think they looked at the weekend's poll which showed Labour had slashed their lead and they were desperate to find a policy announcement that was about anything other than referendums or the European Union... if only they'd read a few news reports before deciding to go with this one.

One thing you may not have considered is this. While the Conservatives are in opposition and not Government (yet) we - the taxpayer - are STILL paying them to come up with stuff like this. We're paying for the worst Government ever and the lamest opposition ever. We're paying for the Evil Empire and it's unelected rulers. And we're giving trillions to banks...

Still, never mind. The sun might even come out later. You know, that rather warm orange coloured thing in the sky...

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8.30pm Addendum: The Conservatives are obviously running around with their fingers in their ears. At their own website, they now have details of policies to:

* Cut central government emissions by ten per cent within twelve months - Britain’s leading companies have agreed to work with a Conservative government to achieve this.
* Consult on Britain’s first Green Investment Bank.
* Make Whitehall energy consumption transparent.
* Introduce new Green ISAs.
* Create a framework to allow the public to be paid to recycle.
* Expand the City’s green trading market.

Even the BBC - at least, through their most trustworthy political voice Andrew Neil - have heard of these leaks, with Neil calling for a "calm, civilised, informative" debate on the issue.

And why do we praise Andrew Neil? Because he constantly conveys a desire to get at the truth and ask questions. You never feel with him that you are being conned. You do get insight and two sides of an argument. Two sides of an argument and the ability to make our own mind up. Is that really too much to ask?

Obviously, the Conservatives will just plough on with their pre-determined agenda, irrespective of anything that comes to light - such as possibly devastating leaked documents.

Problem is, media outlets across the globe are now asking questions about the legitimacy of 'man made global warming' science.

There are now question marks around the science and that is apparently an inconvenient truth.