Blackley and Broughton MP, Graham Stringer, is in big trouble with the Green Party and the London School of Economics after writing an article for the Daily Mail which insisted that "eco justice warriors" are making "phoney" claims about the threat of climate change.
Stringer sits on Parliament's Select Committee for Science and Technology, and the Green Party's joint leaders, Caroline Lucas MP and Jonathan Bartley, have written to Norman Lamb, Chair of the Committee, calling for the Salford MP to be censured.
"Not only did he seriously misrepresent the academic research which has proven the existence of human-made climate change, he did so while touting his membership of the Science and Technology Committee but neglecting to mention his affiliation to the Global Warming Policy Foundation which lobbies against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" they write.
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"His article, which risks undermining the already fragile state of our political leaders' commitments to tackling climate change, is irresponsible and undermines the credibility of the committee he sits on" they add "In his article, Mr Stringer blames 'broken computer models' and accuses 'environmental warriors' of 'habitual arrogance' in making his case for a serious scaling back of global efforts to fight climate change."
In the letter, the Green leaders also make reference to the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics which accused Stringer of "untrue claims" and of leading a "smear campaign" against those committed to fighting climate change.
"We'd be very grateful to hear what steps you might take to respond, and how you will prevent him using his position on the Science and Technology to propagate his own ideological beliefs on climate change" the Green Party leaders' letter concludes.
In the Mail article, written last week, Stringer points to a new report which, he writes, "reveals that the immediate threat from global warming is lower than previously thought, because the computer models used by climate change experts are flawed...
"It shows that so many of the assumptions behind the imposition of the fashionable eco agenda - such as the creation of vast, subsidised wind farms or the levying of green taxes - are wrong" he adds "Yet the environmental warriors show not a shred of embarrassment over these new findings.
"They don't seem to have considered for a moment that we might consider throttling back on the extreme measures we're told must be carried out to 'save the planet'" he insists "They display such certainty because environmentalism increasingly resembles a religious creed. That has certainly been my experience as a Labour MP, who, because of my own knowledge of science, has long been sceptical about the climate change doctrine..."
Making reference to his Salford constituents, Stringer adds: "Successive governments have brought in green taxes, hiked fuel duties and pushed up energy bills. The real price is paid not by the eco justice warriors wallowing in their phoney moral superiority, but by people like those in my Blackley and Broughton constituency, who struggle to meet their household running costs..."
The article ends with Stringer making a plea for "a return to environmental sanity in place of the current dangerous green fundamentalism..."
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