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Lord Peter Lilley has been proposed as a member of a new parliamentary environmental committee.
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A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy.
Lord Peter Lilley, who has disputed mainstream climate science and was one of just five MPs to oppose the UK’s climate change act in 2008, is listed alongside 12 other peers proposed as members of the new environment and climate change committee (ECCC), due to be formally appointed next week.
Kelly was born in Wellington before moving to England in the 1970s. He is a trustee of the UK climate sceptics group Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group founded by climate change denier Nigel Lawson that lobbies against policies promoting alternatives to fossil fuels.
SUPPLIED/Stuff He returned to Wellington temporarily in October to avoid Covid-19 and the Northern Hemisphere winter. Kelly said he did not deny climate change was occurring, but believed it was futile to invest money in emissions reductions schemes because they would make almost no difference to emissions. “I don’t want to spend enormous amounts of money on climate change mitigation when we suddenly find in the future we have to spend it on climate change adaptation,” he said.
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