https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j458q00e2o
A senior Reform UK councillor has been criticised after claiming man-made global warming is a “hoax”.
Bert Bingham, cabinet member for transport and environment at Nottinghamshire County Council, made the comments during a public meeting on Thursday.
He claimed data is “manipulated” and people have been “brainwashed over time through the media”.
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“The statistics are manipulated. I’ve followed it over decades, there’s lots of science out there, but at the moment it seems to be as in a lot of matters with Covid, if you follow the money, you find the science or the pseudoscience.”
Scientists around the world agree human activities are causing temperatures to rise, and the year 2024 was the world’s hottest on record.
It was also the first calendar year to surpass 1.5C (34.7F) of warming, according to the Copernicus climate service.
The UN’s climate body – the IPCC – concluded in 2023 that “human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming”.
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