UK's new environment secretary once asked whether climate change was real
 

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 the*All Party Parliamentary Group on unconventional gas and oil in October 2015.* Read more...


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