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Climate Change Congress: Is it all a British plot?

Delegates arriving this morning were handed leaflets headed “British climate lies will lead to genocide”. According to Denmark’s Schiller Institute, the Copenhagen climate change congress has been wrongly promoted as an international scientific conference and is instead part of “the latest aggressive assault by the British Empire against the just yearnings of the nation states and peoples of the world for economic development”.

 

Speakers questioned after the first press briefing of the day gave these views pretty short shrift, however.

 

“Unabated climate change will make it much harder to eradicate poverty and beyond a certain threshold will make it impossible,” said John Ashton of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office.

 

Ian Chubb of Australian National University added, “As an Australian I think we are very good at looking for British plots and even we can’t see one here.”

Posted by Liz Kalaugher on March 10, 2009 9:34 PM | Permalink