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UKIP urges caution on climate laws

Thursday, 10th April 2008

In a debate at the European Parliament on the EU's Climate Change Green Paper, UK Independence Party MEP Graham Booth urged the EU to have more caution in its approach to its macro-environmental policy.

"Last month," he said, "many eminent scientists and climatologists from around the world met in New York and, after two days of serious discussions, issued the Manhattan Declaration, which states categorically, "that there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.”

They highlighted the fact that “the adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation" and they recommended that "all taxes, regulations and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith."

Mr Booth, MEP for the South West, also commended the EU to take seriously the words of Lord Lawson who recently pointed out, "The average temperature in Helsinki is less than 5°C. In Singapore it is in excess of 27°C – a difference of 22°C. If humans can successfully cope with that, it is not immediately apparent why they should not be able to adapt to a change of some 3°C, when they are given 100 years in which to do so."

Mr Booth said: "Though there seems to be a political consensus, there is no scientific one. To impose devastating societal and economic environmental regulation on such flimsy evidence is foolhardy. We cannot control the earth but we can adapt. If the EU thinks it can do so it is as foolish as King Canute's advisers. If change is happening then we must prepare for it, not pretend we can stop it."

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