Quarter of UK MEPs deny global warming too
Recently the Next Left blog surveyed and showed that all the top ten Tory blogs in the UK denied the existence of global warming.
Now Martin from the Lay Scientist blog has done a similar survey of UK MEPs.
By my count, 23% of Britain’s 72 MEPs are either explicit climate ’skeptics’, or are members of ’skeptic’ parties who remain silent on the subject (I use the term in quotes since climate ’skeptics’ are generally about as ’skeptical’ as 9/11 ‘truthers’ are truth-oriented – googling for things that support your case and credulously accepting them as ‘fact’ isn’t skepticism).
Of those, eight belonged to UKIP, two were Conservative and two BNP.
Views of several other MEPs were not know.
Martin adds:
The 26 Conservatives did better than I expected, perhaps through Cameron’s attempt to rebrand the party as Green Conservatives. Indeed, Tories like Vicky Ford are openly attacking bad science, with quotes like: “To be honest, I get fed up with climate-change-deniers.” Roger Helmer and Daniel Hannan from the Tory fringe pose the last challenge to a European party consensus on the issue, while the views of four remain unknown.
The fringes of the right, who now comprise around 20% of our elected representatives in Europe, are a car crash. The BNP aren’t exactly the most rational of parties, and their views were not unexpected; but UKIP are a much more serious proposition and take a fiercely anti-science line, as you can see from a quick search of their website. UKIP are a climate denialist party.
Read the full article here.
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Slightly dodgy from the Lay Scientist there.
He actually asked UKIP this question:
“How will you use a seat in the European Parliament to tackle climate change and its impact on the UK? ”
And got this answer:
“UKIP: We wouldn’t prioritise any of these methods. If you actually take the time to read, say, The Stern Review it says that we need to be spending some 1-2% of GDP on solving the problems of climate change. If you then look at the taxation system in the UK you’ll see that we already do pay 1-2% of GDP in green taxes. Thus, if we are to believe what Lord Stern is telling us, we’ve actually already done what is necessary. Of course, those who argue that we must do a great deal more than this, those who insist that this isn’t enough, are also therefore arguing that it’s all going to cost us a great deal more than 1-2% of GDP. One argument that is often made is that we need political union in order to deal with environmental problems such as climate change. However, this doesn’t stand up to even the most rudimentary examination of the logic. All agree that we’ll need the cooperation of the US, China and India in dealing with matters. But no one is arguing that we should have political union with the US, China and India whether to deal with climate change or not. So, in fact, everyone is saying that independent nations need to cooperate, without being part of one political unit, in order to solve the problem.”
To say that the “party line” is either denialist or “skeptic” on hte basis of that is a pretty long stretch.
Why am I not surprised…nothing must stand in the way of the free market!
Even facts.
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