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Reform UK’s Richard Tice dismisses man-made local weather change as ‘rubbish’

By Editorial Board Published February 17, 2025 4 Min Read
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Reform UK’s Richard Tice dismisses man-made local weather change as ‘rubbish’

Reform UK’s deputy chief has dismissed scientific consensus on people’ function in altering the local weather as “garbage”.

Richard Tice MP advised Sky’s political correspondent Ali Fortescue: “There’s no evidence that man-made CO2 is going to change climate change. Given that it’s gone on for millions of years, it will go on for millions of years.”

Fortescue challenged him with the findings of a UN group of 200 worldwide scientists that people actions like burning fossil fuels are accountable for current local weather modifications.

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Richard Tice claimed there are “thousands” of scientists who agreed with him Pic: PA

“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” mentioned the 2021 report by the IPCC, which was signed off by all governments, together with fossil-fuel-rich Russia, USA and Saudi Arabia.

“No, that’s absolute garbage,” Mr Tice mentioned. “The climate changed for millions of years before man-made CO2.”

The local weather did change for years earlier than people started burning fossil fuels at scale.

However what alarms scientists now could be how rapidly it’s altering – too quick for nature to maintain up.

“While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years,” in accordance with the NASA house and analysis physique.

Sent to Victoria Seabrook to use in a story about climate change. Prof Ed Hawkins

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Current fast warming has coincided with a fast bounce within the greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels or chopping down forests. Pic: Prof Ed Hawkins

Mr Tice additionally mentioned there have been “a thousand” scientists who agreed with him, who had been “not a minority”.

An evaluation of greater than 3,000 peer-reviewed research discovered the scientific consensus was local weather change brought on by people was higher than 99%.

Bob Ward, coverage director at LSE College’s Grantham Analysis Institute and Geological Society fellow, known as the feedback “pure misinformation”.

“There is not a single credible scientific organisation in the UK or the world that agrees with him about the causes or consequences of climate change,” mentioned Mr Ward.

The local weather has warmed by 1.3C for the reason that pre-industrial period, when people started to burn fossil fuels at scale, in accordance with the Copernicus science physique.

Earlier final week, Mr Tice had set out plans to impose taxes on the renewable power sector and scrap the UK’s web zero goal, if Reform UK had been in energy.

He blamed these for larger power payments and for the deindustrialisation of Britain.

Reform UK solely has 5 MPs, however final week topped a ballot of voters for the primary time, albeit by a tiny margin.

Prof Hawkins mentioned many options to sort out local weather change would additionally enhance power safety, present cleaner air, and decrease prices “for everyone”.

“But the cost of delay increases with each passing year.”

Round two in three individuals who voted for Reform UK final 12 months assume it is vital the federal government cares about local weather motion, in accordance with analysis by Extra In Frequent.

It discovered that though Reform voters are “less enthusiastic about climate policies” than different voters, local weather is low on their agenda.

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