Gordon Brown attacks 'flat-earth' climate change sceptics | Environment | The Guardian
| Sun, 2009-12-06 16:59 — David Herron |
Sceptics in the UK and the US have moved to capitalise on a series of hacked emails (aka climategate) from climate change scientists at the University of East Anglia, claiming they show attempts to hide information that does not support the case for human activity causing rising temperatures. But tonight the UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, his environment secretary, Ed Miliband, and Ed Markey, the man who co-authored the US climate change bill, joined forces to condemn the sceptics. "With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics," Brown told the Guardian. "We know the science. We know what we must do. We must now act and close the 5bn-tonne gap. That will seal the deal." Miliband said: "The approach of the climate saboteurs is to misuse data and mislead people. The're playing politics with science in a dangerous and deceitful manner...The evidence is clear and the time we have to act is short..."