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07-14-2016, 07:16 PM
UK's new environment secretary once asked whether climate change was real
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Andrea Leadsom, the newly-appointed environment secretary, once said that she had to ask whether climate change was real.*
Yes, you read it right.*
Leadsom, a former banker and fund manager who served as energy minister in the previous government and campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, recounted the episode to a parliamentary fracking group.
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"When I first came to this job, one of my two questions was: 'Is climate change real?' and the other was 'Is hydraulic fracturing safe?' And on both of those questions I am **w completely persuaded," she told (https://drillordrop.com/2015/10/26/energy-minister-theres-**-difference-between-men-and-women-on-fracking/) the*All Party Parliamentary Group on unconventional gas and oil in October 2015.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/leadsom-environment-secretary-climate/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Andrea Leadsom, the newly-appointed environment secretary, once said that she had to ask whether climate change was real.*
Yes, you read it right.*
Leadsom, a former banker and fund manager who served as energy minister in the previous government and campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, recounted the episode to a parliamentary fracking group.
SEE ALSO: Good news: The ozone layer is finally healing (http://mashable.com/2016/06/30/ozone-hole-healing-study/)
"When I first came to this job, one of my two questions was: 'Is climate change real?' and the other was 'Is hydraulic fracturing safe?' And on both of those questions I am **w completely persuaded," she told (https://drillordrop.com/2015/10/26/energy-minister-theres-**-difference-between-men-and-women-on-fracking/) the*All Party Parliamentary Group on unconventional gas and oil in October 2015.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/leadsom-environment-secretary-climate/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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