Now We Know How Many Climate Clowns To Fill The House Or Lords . . .
Public figures with a history of climate science denial and opposition to environmental measures are set to become members of the House of Lords, after the latest round of peerages was announced at the end of last week. They include a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), who will join fellow GWPF affiliates and supporters Nigel Lawson, Bernard Donoughue, Matt Ridley, Peter Lilley, Andrew Turnbull, Emma Nicholson, Nigel Vinson and Richard Cavendish.
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Charles Moore
Former editor of the Telegraph and official biographer of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore has been a trustee of the GWPF since 2015 and has regularly criticised the UK’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, Moore urged then Prime Minister Theresa May to seize Brexit as an opportunity to cut environmental regulations, writing that “Britain could copy [US President Donald] Trump’s bonfire of controls, igniting it with good old fossil fuels”. Over the 2019 Christmas break, he guest-edited an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, in which he slammed the broadcaster’s coverage of climate change, calling its environment analyst Roger Harrabin biased and accusing him of taking “instructions from the environment lobbies”.
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Claire Fox
A former Brexit Party MEP, Claire Fox runs the anti-regulation Institute of Ideas thinktank and has consistently argued against government intervention, stating last year that the internet should remain unregulated even for child pornography and terrorist recruitment videos. Fox is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and forms part of a libertarian network based around the online magazine Spiked, which has received funding from US oil billionaires the Kochs, as DeSmog revealed in 2018. She has frequently dismissed mainstream climate science, describing the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as “advocacy research”. In a tweet, she said it would be a “betrayal of scientific inquiry” to treat the body as “high priests of The Science and final word on climate”.
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Michael Spencer
Worth an estimated £1.1 billion, the businessman Michael Spencer served as Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 2006-2010, radically turning around the party’s finances in that time. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, taking over from advertising mogul Lord Saatchi. The thinktank, co-founded by Margaret Thatcher and based at 57 Tufton Street, has previously cast doubt on climate science and opposed efforts to cut emissions, in particular renewable energy. The group published a report in 2016 by former Conservative advisor Rupert Darwall claiming that government support for renewables had “destroyed the UK electricity market”. More recently, the group published a series of essays from Conservative politicians, which called on the party to show leadership in tackling climate change.
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https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/08/03/more-climate-science-deniers-appointed-house-lords
