Disempower far-right climate-change deniers. Don't debate with them | Molly Scott Cato

A Ukip MEP has written a shamefully ignorant climate change report for the EU - it should never have happenedAfter a long, hot summer beset by record temperatures, drought and deadly fires, imagine my shock, on returning to the European parliament, to be confronted with a report that denies the reality of climate change. Given it could influence the allocation of the next round of environment funding under the EU's Life programme, it is deeply disturbing to see such a report, based on wholly discredited science, wending its way down the corridors of Brussels.Some of the claims made by the report's author, the Ukip MEP Stuart Agnew, are, frankly, pretty hair-raising. For instance, he claims that the effect of CO2 levels on our climate is "negligible", and that it is "one of agriculture's greatest friends". Agnew claims there is a lack of concentration of CO2 and as a result there is no problem for the EU to solve. Continue reading...