Nigel Lawson
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
