Guardian: Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president who vowed to try to “save the human race” with a tax on carbon, was today accused by his junior ecology minister of pandering to “eco-scepticism” after the reform was in effect abandoned by the government. Chantal Jouanno made no secret of her fury after the prime minister, François Fillon, said the government would not “sink the competitiveness” of French businesses by inflicting a tax on them that was not paid by their EU counterparts. “I …