Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 8 November 2016.
Diolch, Lywydd. The Government, a few days ago, announced that there would be a cut to the budget for climate change projects of 36 per cent. As UKIP stood in the last election on a policy of cutting this budget, I am glad to see that the First Minister is coming our way, just as on managed migration. But, I think it’s rather quixotic that the big cuts are coming in flood defences, which are necessary, quite regardless of the theories on man-made global warming.
Will the First Minister accept that even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes that there’s been no global warming since 1998, and that there was only a 0.4 per cent rise in global temperatures between 1975 and 1998, which is similar to the period between 1860 and 1880, and again between 1910 and 1940? So, is it not good sense, therefore, not to be spending huge sums of money on the consequences of a theory that is mainly conjectural?