New UK Trade Secretary Tweeted Climate Lies, Dismissed Climate Activists, Scientists As "Fanatics"
The new international trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, has been accused of rejecting the science behind the climate emergency after a series of tweets came to light showing her dismissing those who believe in global heating as fanatics. Labour has condemned the appointment of Trevelyan, who was elevated from junior business minister, which took in the brief of promoting clean growth, to replace Liz Truss, the new foreign secretary, as part of Boris Johnsons reshuffle on Wednesday.
The opposition unearthed a series of tweets sent by Trevelyan between 2010 and 2012 that explicitly reject the science of global heating. Clear evidence that the ice caps arent melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics, read one.
Another, sent in support of a campaign against windfarms, said: We arent getting hotter, global warming isnt actually happening. A third approvingly shared an article by an explicitly climate emergency-rejecting Twitter account, Climate Realists. Another, from 2011, contrasted the views of the longstanding climate change denier Nigel Lawson with what Trevelyan called the ideological obsession with human-made climate change of the then energy secretary, Chris Huhne.
In a tweet collating Trevelyans messages, the shadow international trade secretary, Emily Thornberry, said: At least the last Trade Secretary only hired climate change deniers
She was referring to a decision by Truss to appoint as a trade envoy the former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, who has questioned policies to mitigate the climate crisis.
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