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Nigel Lawson Hits Back at The Independent’s Climate Claptrap
I have considerable affection for, and some slight connection with, The Independent. More than 40 years ago, when I was editor of the Spectator, I gave a promising young journalist called Andreas Whittam Smith his first column. A decade or so later he founded, and was the first editor of, The Independent. And in recent years my elder son, Dominic, has been contributing a weekly column to the paper.
So it was with sorrow as well as anger that I read the disgraceful story splashed all over the front and second pages of last week’s issue, headed “Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers”, clearly implying that those think-tanks that question any part of the conventional climate change wisdom are tainted by their dependence on the oil industry. This fell well below the standards first set by Andreas, and which I had come to expect from The Independent.
Read the entire opinion piece by Nigel Lawson in the Independent on Sunday: Nigel Lawson: A climate change sceptic bites back
The former chancellor takes aim at the IoS and says that the debate on global warming is not a question of ‘goodies and baddies’.