Uh oh, yet another Reform official reveals themself to be an ignorant climate change denier.
This time it’s Bert Bingham, the cabinet member for transport and environment at Nottinghamshire County Council. Yes, he’s responsible for the environment. He also denies the science on it. The science almost every scientific expert holds as true.
At a public meeting, Bingham claimed that:
I’ve never seen such nonsense as the anthropogenic global warming hoax…
In his paranoid worldview it is of course a deliberate manipulation:
The statistics are manipulated. I’ve followed it over decades, there’s lots of science out there…
The environment isn’t the only subject that he feels like the experts are cunningly manipulating the evidence for. He didn’t elaborate, but it sounds like his opinions on Covid might potentially be somewhat less than evidence based.
Bingham on climate science:
…at the moment it seems to be as in a lot of matters with Covid, if you follow the money, you find the science or the pseudoscience.”
Follow the money, sure. The trail will lead you to the fact that between 2019 and 2024, 92% of donations to Reform came from wealthy “oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers”.