Nigel Lawson created a climate science denying apparatus in the heart of Parliament

Mat Hope:

At the age of 86, Lawson last week stepped down as chair of the climate science denying campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

Founded in 2009, on the eve of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the group’s task was to cast doubt on the climate science and lobby policymakers to avoid taking action to cut emissions.

Ten years later, the group is still at it.

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Remember when the UK subsidised all that renewable energy which transformed the sector and made the country a world leader in the field? Remember how the Tories brutally and suddenly cut that support? Those drastic changes don’t happen without persistent lobbying from within.

That is Lawson’s legacy.