Andrew Lansley yesterday failed to condemn a Tory council leader who said global warming "may not exist" and was dreamt up by “bourgeois left-wing academics”.
Failed former health secretary Andrew Lansley yesterday failed to condemn a Tory council leader who said global warming “may not exist” and was dreamt up by “bourgeois left-wing academics”.
He was asked by Lib Dem MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert:
“The leader of Cambridgeshire county council recently wrote that global warming “may not exist” and that if it does, it is “not caused by human activity”.
“He described it as a theory espoused by “bourgeois left-wing academics”. Does the Leader of the House join me in condemning this irresponsible and anti-scientific position, and will he find time for a debate about evidence-informed policy?”
Failing to criticise in any way the climate denying Tory council leader, he replied:
“I will not join my Honorouble Friend in that respect, although that does not mean that I agree with the leader of Cambridgeshire county council. We are all allowed our views, and he is allowed his.”
He may not agree with him – but he clearly fails, when presented with an open net, to say he disagrees with the view global warming “may not exist” and is a “left-wing” conspiracy.
Just as worrying as a Tory cabinet minister in the “greenest government ever” being ambivalent on climate change conspiracies is the fact a man such as Cllr. Nick Clarke could join from that famed repository of sane science-believers UKIP and rise up the ranks of David Cameron’s Conservatives to lead a council.
Then again, given the prime minister’s pitchfork-wielding contempt for “the intellectuals of other parties”, maybe it’s not so surprising his dimmer colleagues think as they do…
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38 Responses to “Does Lansley think global warming is a “bourgeois, left-wing” conspiracy?”
Selohesra
I’m with Lansley on this – not sure about left wing conspiracy but real science certainly far from settled. Those pesky warming/cooling cycles pre mankinds very existance for a start
Newsbot9
Yes, yes, after all 0.6% of Climate Scientists is “not settled”.
Far less settled still are things like evolution, of course.
newton
science doesn’t do ‘settled’. Only a non-scientist would think science on any subject is ‘settled’. Non-scientists shouldn’t be allowed the vote – they’re not capable of weighing up the issues properly.
Newsbot9
Ah right, a relativist, who mistakes his views for science. Keep hating on evolution and AGCC!
(And lol, yea, of course you love the concept of a “science test” you can fix for the vote…good old Jim Crow!)
newton
My views are science – I am a scientist. The climate is certainly warming (the science suggests this) but the science doesn’t suggest we are heading for a human induced climate catastrophe. It was far warmer in the last interglacial.