Lord Lawson Blasts Al Gore For Obsession Over Climate
Lord Lawson blasted Al Gore for his major interventions in warning the world of the dangers of global warming saying there were bigger threats to focus on – including North Korea and terrorism.
The former Chancellor denied climate change should be a concern despite scientific consensus the planet is being damaged.
But Lord Lawson hit out at the costs involved in climate change policies and said the money should be spent on more pressing matters.His comments come as Donald Trump controversially pulled the US out of the Paris climate change deal, signed in 2015 by 195 countries, in June.
Speaking on the Today programme, on BBC Radio 4, Lord Lawson, chancellor from 1983 to 1989, said: “Al Gore has a substantial economic interest in renewable energy.
“If it is fully economic, why on earth do we subsidise it and support it by all sorts of government policies which are driving up the cost of energy, particularly in the United Kingdom.
“I’ve heard what Al Gore has to say and it’s the same old clap trap.
“People often fail to change and he says he hasn’t changed, he’s like the man who goes around saying ‘the end of the world is nigh’ with a big placard.
“International terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, these are real problems.
“The world is not short of problems and to devote resources and energy to non-problems is really ridiculous.”