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What planet is Tim Yeo on?

Tuesday, 8th December 2009

UKIP Deputy Leader David Campbell Bannerman, who plans to run against Tim Yeo in the constituency of South Suffolk in the next General Election has blasted the sitting MP for his outspoken attacks on climate change sceptics.

Mr Yeo told the Daily Telegraph that anyone challenging the man-made global warming theory was likely to be old and dead within the next few years.

He said:  “The dying gasps of the deniers will be put to bed. In five years time, no one will argue about [there being] a man-made contribution to climate change.”
 
Speaking on the day that the climate change summit in Copenhagen opened, Mr Campbell Bannerman said:  “What planet is Tim Yeo living on?  Has the headline story of the manipulation of data by the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia completely passed him by? 

"The Unit is hugely influential in the climate change debate but their bias has been exposed.  They have tried to hide the medieval warming period when Vikings tended cattle on Greenland, which then earned its name as it was not covered with ice as it is now. 

"There is a US Congressional Investigation and now the UN is looking into these very serious allegations, which could involve criminal prosecutions.  The fact is, the whole basis behind man-made global warming is rapidly becoming unravelled and exposed as a fraud.  Tim Yeo is either being disingenuous or supremely arrogant.
 
“The world renowned astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, personally told me that the whole theory is utter nonsense.  He said it is just the sun.  Ice caps are melting at the same rate on Mars and that the whole thing will sort itself out in 20 years. 

"It seems to me that Mr Yeo is a commonsense denier and we need a Member of Parliament who keeps up with events, rather than wallowing in tired, doom-laden dogma that has been widely discredited. 

"Incidentally, I am 15 years younger than he is and I plan to be around and speaking up for commonsense on the climate change issue for a lot longer than five years!! ”

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