Climate Sceptic Boris Johnson Is Britain’s New Foreign Secretary

British Government Abolishes Department Of

Energy And Climate Change

 

Former London mayor Boris Johnson was appointed as foreign minister by Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday. Johnson was a leading figure in the victorious “Leave” campaign in the EU referendum last month and is well-known climate sceptic. --Global Warming Policy Forum, 14 July 2016
 

 

 

 

It’s the right climate to scrap the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The abolition of DECC would not be difficult to achieve. With green opposition deeply divided and ineffective, it is an ideal opportunity for the government to abolish this unnecessary arm of the state without much fuss (although, in practice, it is likely to happen after the Paris conference). --Benny Peiser and Daniel Mahoney, City A.M. Thursday 27 August 2015

 

DECC has been abolished and UK energy policy is be transferred to a new ministry called the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The department will be headed by Greg Clark, formerly Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. It is understood that DECC will vacate its offices at 3 Whitehall Place and a new department for exiting the European Union will move in. --reNews, 14 July 2016

 

Thanks to the Climate Change Act – legislation not imposed on Britain by uncontrollable forces but introduced by Labour and supported by all political parties – wholesale electricity prices for British industry are twice those paid by their EU competitors. One might argue that steel is not a strategically-important industry for Britain and it does not merit special support. But that is not what ministers say. And it does not explain the unilateral and monstrous act of self-harm – or rather, the act of harm inflicted upon industrial Britain by Parliament – that was the Climate Change Act. --Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s Right-Hand Man, Conservative Home, 5 April 2016

 

Theresa May is Britain’s new Prime Minister who took over from David Cameron yesterday. So what are Theresa May’s views on climate change, climate policy and the environment? The Independent declares that “she is not a green” and quotes her as saying in her speech today that “I want to see an energy policy that emphasises the reliability of supply and lower costs for users.” Looking in detail at her voting on climate policy reveals that in the last year she has: Voted against setting a decarbonisation target for the UK. Voted against requiring a strategy for carbon capture and storage.  Voted to apply the Climate Change Levy tax to electricity generated from renewables. All this must be worrying news for climate policy advocates. --Paul Matthews, Climate Scepticism, 11 July 2016

 

Official: Britain no longer has “the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy And Climate Change (DECC). --James Delingpole, Breitbart London, 14 July 2016

 

The UK now has one of the lowest levels of public support for climate action. Why? Readers are being brainwashed by the majority of our newspapers. Advertising Action on Climate Project has released its full briefing paper on climate scepticism in the UK media, providing the evidence for the fact that the UK’s four right-wing owned newspaper chains, are the single biggest blockage to the urgent climate action that the UK needs. This campaign has become even more urgent with the post-Brexit, breath-takingly disastrous appointment of the climate-sceptic Boris Johnson to be the UK’s Foreign Secretary and so in charge of the UK’s international lobbying on the climate emergency! --Donnachadh McCarthy, Permaculture, 14 July 2016