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| − | Although he has no scientific credentials, Lord Lawson is probably the most high-profile and prolific climate sceptic in the [[Tory Party]]. His son, [[Dominic Lawson]], who is also a climate sceptic, <ref> Dominic Lawson [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-fight-climate-change-or-stay-competitive-im-afraid-these-two-aims-are-incompatible-760078.html Dominic Lawson: Fight climate change? Or stay competitive? I'm afraid these two aims are incompatible], accessed 1 May 2011 </ref> is married to [[Rosa Monckton]], the sister of the infamous climate denier and sceptic [[Christopher Monckton]]. | + | Although he has no scientific credentials, Lord Lawson is probably the most high-profile and prolific climate sceptic in the [[Tory Party]]. His son, [[Dominic Lawson]], who is also a climate sceptic, <ref> Dominic Lawson [http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-fight-climate-change-or-stay-competitive-im-afraid-these-two-aims-are-incompatible-760078.html Dominic Lawson: Fight climate change? Or stay competitive? I'm afraid these two aims are incompatible], accessed 1 May 2011 </ref> is married to [[Rosa Monckton]], the sister of the infamous climate denier and sceptic [[Christopher Monckton]]. <ref> [http://www.desmogblog.com/nigel-lawson Nigel Lawson] Desmogblog.com, accessed 1 May 2011 </ref> |
In 2009 Lawson set up the [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] (GWPF). The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.<ref>[http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are.html Who we are], GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.<ref> [http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers], CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> | In 2009 Lawson set up the [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] (GWPF). The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.<ref>[http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are.html Who we are], GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.<ref> [http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers], CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> | ||
Revision as of 11:46, 1 May 2011
Nigel Lawson was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983 to 1989. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lawson of Blaby in 1992.[1]
Climate Change Sceptic
Although he has no scientific credentials, Lord Lawson is probably the most high-profile and prolific climate sceptic in the Tory Party. His son, Dominic Lawson, who is also a climate sceptic, [2] is married to Rosa Monckton, the sister of the infamous climate denier and sceptic Christopher Monckton. [3]
In 2009 Lawson set up the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF claims that their main purpose is ―to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant.[4] Yet it relentlessly claims that climate change will not have too serious effects. The group‘s claim to be sceptical about climate policy and not about climate change itself appears a strategic choice, given that the GPWF oozes climate change denialism.[5]
Affiliations
- Global Warming Policy Foundation Chairman, Board of Trustees
- Standpoint magazine, advisory council
External Resources
Notes
- ↑ Lord Lawson of Blaby, www.parliament.uk, accessed 4 June 2010.
- ↑ Dominic Lawson Dominic Lawson: Fight climate change? Or stay competitive? I'm afraid these two aims are incompatible, accessed 1 May 2011
- ↑ Nigel Lawson Desmogblog.com, accessed 1 May 2011
- ↑ Who we are, GWPF website, Accessed 11 February 2011
- ↑ Concealing their sources - who funds Europe’s climate change deniers, CEO report p.6, Accessed 11 February 2011
