Copenhagen Countdown: Nick Griffin’s stance backed by academic
JUST days before British National Party chairman, Nick Griffin, goes to the Copenhagen summit as the leading political skeptic of man-made climate change, his stance has received the backing of a senior academic in the field.
Professor Ian Plimer (left) has called the claim that the planet is threatened by man-made climate change, a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud” and condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going.
Prof Plimer has echoed Nick Griffin’s speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week, claiming that Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes.
He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over billions of years.
In a speech in London, Prof Plimer told his audience:
“Climates always change. They always have and they always will. They are driven by a number of factors that are random and cyclical.”
His comments came days after it emerged, through the leak of emails from the world-leading research unit at the University of East Anglia, that scientists had been massaging data to prove that global warming was taking place.
The Climate Research Unit admitted getting rid of much of its raw climate data, which means other scientists cannot check the subsequent research, and the head of the CRU Professor Phil Jones, has since stood down.
