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Related: About this forumUKIP also another anti-Climate Change Party?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30311786"We'd also abolish the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and make £3bn savings through that"
Anti-DFID I understand. Anti-DECC?!
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UKIP also another anti-Climate Change Party? (Original Post)
Jeneral2885
Dec 2014
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'Lord' Christopher Monckton was their deputy leader and climate spokesman
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2014
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,149 posts)1. 'Lord' Christopher Monckton was their deputy leader and climate spokesman
Monckton joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2009 and became its chief spokesperson on climate change.[32][33] At the 2010 general election he was nominated as the UKIP candidate for the Scottish constituency of Perth and North Perthshire; although a hereditary peer, he was entitled to stand for election for the House of Commons as he is not a member of the House of Lords. He subsequently withdrew in accordance with UKIP's policy of not opposing other Eurosceptic parliamentary candidates.[34] In June 2010, UKIP announced he had been appointed its deputy leader, to serve alongside David Campbell Bannerman[35] under party leader The Lord Pearson of Rannoch, who owns an estate in Scotland adjoining Monckton's.[36] He was succeeded in the role of deputy leader by Paul Nuttall in November 2010.[37]
In 2011 he stood as lead party-list candidate for UKIP in the Scottish Parliament constituency of Mid Scotland and Fife[38] but did not gain election, with the UKIP list coming seventh after scoring 1.1% of the region's vote.[39] Monckton also headed UKIP's policy unit for a while but according to the party's spokesman he had relinquished any formal role by June 2012, moving into a "semi-detached" relationship with UKIP.[36] By January 2013 he had become UKIP's president in Scotland[40] but was sacked by UKIP leader Nigel Farage in November 2013 following factional infighting.[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley
In 2011 he stood as lead party-list candidate for UKIP in the Scottish Parliament constituency of Mid Scotland and Fife[38] but did not gain election, with the UKIP list coming seventh after scoring 1.1% of the region's vote.[39] Monckton also headed UKIP's policy unit for a while but according to the party's spokesman he had relinquished any formal role by June 2012, moving into a "semi-detached" relationship with UKIP.[36] By January 2013 he had become UKIP's president in Scotland[40] but was sacked by UKIP leader Nigel Farage in November 2013 following factional infighting.[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley
so, yeah, many of them are deniers.
Roger Helmer, Ukips European parliament leader and energy spokesman, has controversially said climate change is a myth and that fossil fuels are the future of British energy policy.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/23/eu-climate-policy-being-taken-hostage-by-ukip-meps-say
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/23/eu-climate-policy-being-taken-hostage-by-ukip-meps-say
The success of Ukip in the local and European elections should bring greater scrutiny of its policies, particularly on energy, ahead of next years general election. While the party capitalised on concerns about immigration and the EU in order to gain MEPs and councillors in many parts of the country, its manifestos also outlined energy policies that reflect an outright denial of man-made climate change.
The Ukip European manifesto attacked EU targets for renewables and efforts to close the most polluting coal-fired power plants, on the grounds that they increase the "risk of blackouts", but also promised to scrap the UKs targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce fuel duty on petrol. The partys manifesto for the English local elections offered fewer pledges on energy, but vowed to "end wasteful EU and UK subsidies to 'renewable energy scams,' such as wind turbines and solar farms."
These commitments were very loosely based on Ukip's energy policy pamphlet, which now lies relatively hidden on the partys website after its publication earlier this year. The pamphlet complains of policies that are "dictated by Brussels," but also lashes out at domestic measures, suggesting we should abandon renewables and instead "base our energy strategy on gas, nuclear and coal."
Most strikingly of all, it recommends "a re-think" to allow the UK to exploit its remaining coal reserves, claiming that the local impacts of mining can be avoided by "emerging technologies enabling energy to be recovered from coal by underground combustion". But it fails to admit that although underground coal gasification has been the subject of research for many years, it is still far from being proven as a widespread commercially viable technology.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/its-time-challenge-ukip-over-its-climate-change-denial
The Ukip European manifesto attacked EU targets for renewables and efforts to close the most polluting coal-fired power plants, on the grounds that they increase the "risk of blackouts", but also promised to scrap the UKs targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce fuel duty on petrol. The partys manifesto for the English local elections offered fewer pledges on energy, but vowed to "end wasteful EU and UK subsidies to 'renewable energy scams,' such as wind turbines and solar farms."
These commitments were very loosely based on Ukip's energy policy pamphlet, which now lies relatively hidden on the partys website after its publication earlier this year. The pamphlet complains of policies that are "dictated by Brussels," but also lashes out at domestic measures, suggesting we should abandon renewables and instead "base our energy strategy on gas, nuclear and coal."
Most strikingly of all, it recommends "a re-think" to allow the UK to exploit its remaining coal reserves, claiming that the local impacts of mining can be avoided by "emerging technologies enabling energy to be recovered from coal by underground combustion". But it fails to admit that although underground coal gasification has been the subject of research for many years, it is still far from being proven as a widespread commercially viable technology.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/its-time-challenge-ukip-over-its-climate-change-denial
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)2. Here's how you find out what the Kippers' policy on anything is.
Go to the bar of the nearest pub and look for the overweight 60-something white guy sitting on his own with the fag packet in front of him.
Ask him what he thinks about anything.
If what he says isn't UKIP policy today, it will be for at least 24 hours sometime between now and the election.
The Skin
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)3. VERY anti-environment and climate change deniers
I think they even want to ban the teaching of climate science in schools!
Climate change denial is a major strand of UKIP policy. Just another reason not to take any of their policy proposals seriously if you ask me.