Lord Lawson: ‘the issue is climate change alarmism’

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The Bath Lecture: a sober analysis

Former UK Chancellor Nigel Lawson lays out the terms of the current ‘climate debate’, which for public figures such as himself is inevitably plagued by insults and mis-informed criticism.

Quote: ‘according to the Climate Change Secretary, Ed Davey, the global warming dissenters are, without exception, “wilfully ignorant” and in the view of the Prince of Wales we are “headless chickens”. Not that “dissenter” is a term they use. We are regularly referred to as “climate change deniers”, a phrase deliberately designed to echo “Holocaust denier” — as if questioning present policies and forecasts of the future is equivalent to casting malign doubt about a historical fact.’

Essay and link to full speech here