A senior reform UK councilor has been criticized after claiming man -made global warming, this is a “deception”.
Burt Bingham, a cabinet member for transport and environment at the Nottinghamshire County Council, commented on Thursday during a public meeting.
He claimed that the data is “manipulation” and people “have been brainwashed over time through media”.
Bingham rejected the BBC request for an interview.
Bingham was speaking during a debate A proposal by labor councilors Which called the correction-conducted authority to recommend to become carbon neutral by 2030.
“I have been involved in prizes winning stability projects for 25 years, and I have never seen such a nonsense, as is an anthropogenic global warming,” he said.
“The figures are manipulated. I have followed it for decades, there are a lot of science, but currently it seems to be in a lot of cases with Kovid, if you follow the money, you find science or pseudo science.”
Scientists around the world agree that the temperature is rising due to human activities, and The year 2024 was the world’s hottest on record.
It was also the first calendar year to cross 1.5C (34.7F) warming. Copernicus Climate Service.
UN Climate Body – IPCC – concluded in 2023 “Human activities, mainly through the emission of greenhouse gases, have unevenly cause global warming”.
Bingham said that reform UK is opposing pure zero goals “but does not mean that we do not support environmental protection, stability, resource efficiency, industrial symbiosis – I have worked in many areas.”
He said that declaring a climate emergency was “absolutely ridiculous and fruitless”.
He said, “They will stay in the mud huts – if he is also living – as long as he is doing,” he said.
He said that he was “happy to debate people at any time on the price of energy and how it is manipulated”.
He refused to interview the BBC at the end of the meeting, saying that he had a prior engagement.
Labor County Councilor Helen Fesio, who promoted the proposal, stated that she was “shocked” with comments.
He said: “I don’t think it’s really appropriate that you think you know better than a whole body of evidence and scientists who present all this information all the time and told us that this is happening – we can see that it is happening.”
Other reforms appreciated the UK councilors at the end of Bingham’s speech.
Council leader Mick Barton told the BBC that he does not agree with Bingham that man -made global warming is a deception, but to continue in his cabinet role is “more than” happy “for him to continue in his cabinet role.
“I am a leader, but I do not tell Burt what to say and I do not tell Burt what not to say, it is dependent on the councilor Bingham.”
“Burt Bingham is one of the best cabinet members to get me and if he has received his opinion on climate change, I have no problem with it.”
