Friday, July 15, 2016

Yes!-----Climate change department shut down by Theresa May in 'plain stupid' and 'deeply worrying' move

Climate change department shut down by Theresa May in 'plain stupid' and 'deeply worrying' move | Environment | The Independent:
"...One of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to move responsibility for climate change to a new Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
Only on Monday, Government advisers had warned of the need to take urgent action to prepare the UK for floods, droughts, heatwaves and food shortages caused by climate change.
Image result for Theresa May quotesThe news came after the appointment of Andrea Leadsom – who revealed her first question to officials when she became Energy Minister last year was “Is climate change real? – was appointed as the new Environment Secretary.
And, after former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd announced in November that Britain was going to “close coal” by 2025, Ms Leadsom later asked the coal industry to help define what this actually meant.
....Greenpeace said it was concerned that the new Government did not view climate change as a serious threat..."

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