British National Party leader Nick Griffin will represent Europe at Copenhagen climate change summit

November 29, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Nick Griffin

www.telegraph.co.uk

Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, will be an official European representative at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, at the expense of taxpayers.

The far-right politician, who denies the existence of global warming, will represent the environmental committee of the European parliament, to which he was elected in June.

He will be one of 15 representatives chosen to speak on behalf of the EU at the summit in Copenhagen, and is thought to have been given a place because he is the only member of the committee who believes global warming is a hoax.

All MEPs will be able to claim the cost of business class flights to attend the conference on their expenses, along with hotel and other costs.

In a speech in the European parliament last week, Griffin said “man made global warming is an unproven theory” and an “elite scam” put forward by “anti-intellectual cranks”.

He said those who warned of the effects of climate change had reached “an Orwellian consensus” that was “based not on scientific agreement, but on bullying, censorship and fraudulent statistics”.

World leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, are hoping to forge a new global agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists say action is necessary to prevent a global temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, triggering ice cap melting, sea-level rises, widespread flooding, the spread of deserts and devastating storms. Read more…