From Roger Plenty
Howard Koch of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) claims his party is pro-science, but I don’t think this extends to climate change (14 June, p 32).
Christopher Monckton, one-time president of UKIP in Scotland, told an audience in the US that the aim of a proposed UN treaty on climate change was to “impose a communist world government”. More recently he was forced to apologise after comparing an .
Derek Clark, the party’s education spokesman, is “We will still ban Al Gore’s video [An Inconvenient Truth] for use in schools if I’ve got anything to do with it. I will not have much opposition within the party,” before concluding “it is, of course, not just this video that needs banning; all teaching of global warming being caused by carbon dioxide emissions must also be banned. It is just not happening.”
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
