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Daily Mail Climate Change Denier ‘Grossly Irresponsible’

In the very week that President Obama announces he will be going to Copenhagen and committing the US to a carbon dioxide emission reduction target for the US, climate change sceptics refuse to accept that doing something about the issue is warranted.

The Obama promise of a 17% emissions reduction target below 2005 levels by 2020 were welcomed by some but described as inadequate by green groups. However a much smaller sector has been striving for media attention. Describing prominent scientists who try to warn people about climate change as ‘totalitarian’, Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips claimed on the BBC last night that ‘there is no evidence of global warming and that global temperatures are going down not up.’

Phillips told the gasping audience ‘you may find this hard to understand, but there is no evidence for global warming, the seas are not rising in any way out of the ordinary, the ice is not melting and the polar bears are increasing in number’. The audience, shocked by the claims were quickly becalmed by comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke, Scottish National Party deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon and Lord Falconer who were quick to point out the irresponsibility of not accepting the possibility.

New Climate Change “Five Point Plan” For UK

The UK government is to take new action in response to climate change, according to an announcement yesterday.

According to Hilary Benn MP, Ministers will this summer set out the building blocks of a ‘five point plan’ designed both to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at home and abroad and “to protect and prepare for the changes that are already inevitable“.

Climate change is already happening in the UK. The ten hottest years on record globally have occurred since 1990. The South and South East of England are short of water and we have seen increased incidents of flooding.

Benn says the Government has more than doubled spending on flood protection since 1997, developed a heatwave plan in the NHS and is helping communities affected by coastal erosion. These measures are in addition to the push for renewable energy and come at the same time as the UN announced “Seal the Deal Campaign” – a campaign to gather the political momentum needed to seal the Kyoto agreement successor in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Find out more about climate change projections for the UK from Benn’s You Tube video below.