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?”
newton
the link you provided is not about england being uninhabitable due to climate change. try again.
how about a link that substantiates your ludicrous claim that “The latest worst case scenario would have much of England uninhabitable.” Not a paper about temperatures at the equator 200 million years ago.
Newsbot9
No, I will not “try again” after providing you with the evidence. Do the temperature curve – an expert like you will have no problem.
Or are you just a whiner?
SatnV
Another madcap catastrophic fantasy with no evidence to back it up
No wonder the general public won’t buy it
Newsbot9
Yes, your fantasies are.
Back in reality, belief in AGCC is rising.
newton
I believe in AGCC as do most scientists. It’s you and your fellow travellers’ catastrophe scenarios that have no basis either in fact or in rational discussion.
For example, you claimed “The latest worst case scenario would have much of England uninhabitable.”
There is no evidence for this and you could not provide evidence in that link. It is this sort of nonsense that skeptics point to and say ‘they’re making it all up’ – and in this case you are.