7. 7. UKIP Wales Debate: Energy and Environment Policy

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:15 pm on 3 May 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 5:15, 3 May 2017

I’m pleased to shed a little light on things that have been said already in this debate today. I didn’t want this debate to be turned into an argument about global warming in itself. It was supposed to be about how you respond to that, regardless of what you believe is happening in the wider world. But I will say this in response to something that Simon Thomas said earlier on: if we just look at the facts that we know, as opposed to projections, which are speculative, the temperature rose by 0.5 degrees between 1975 and 1998. There’s been virtually no change in global temperatures since 1998. And yet the change between 1975 and 1998 was less than occurred between 1910 and 1940, before theories of global warming had ever been thought about, and in the years when carbon emissions were far greater than they are today. So, the argument is far from settled as to whether the scientific base of these arguments—