Theresa May's Pathetic Climate Patch Job: "You Had Access To The Best Scientists In The World"
Theresa May has drawn angry criticism for saying it took the sight of melting glaciers while on holiday to realise the importance of reducing greenhouse emissions, despite being regularly advised about the need to take drastic action by “the best climate scientists in the world”.
Ms May told reporters it was watching the ice melt in Switzerland over 10 years’ worth of walking holidays with her husband Philip that “brought home” the reality of global warming.
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Professor Mark Maslin, from University College London, said Ms May had been deaf to warnings from climate experts telling her for years emissions needed to be dramatically reduced. He told The Independent: “May has access to the best climate scientists in the world. Throughout her premiership the UK has had a law mandating that we cut our emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 and a committee that continually tells her how we can achieve this.
“But given all this she has only just realised that climate change is a threat – basically too little too late. “May and her government has been completely uninterested in climate change.” Mike Childs, head of science at Friends of the Earth, criticised her for not acting sooner on her observations. He told The Independent: “If a day is a long time in politics, a decade is a very long time for the PM to be aware of devastating climate change that she admits to seeing with her own eyes.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-net-zero-climate-change-switzerland-glaciers-a8977481.html