There is something odd about the global warming debate — or the climate change debate, as we are now expected to call it, since global warming has for the time being come to a halt.
I have never shied away from controversy, nor — for example, as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher years — worried about being unpopular if I believed that what I was saying and doing was in the public interest.
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Nigel Lawson, a former editor of The Spectator and Chancellor of the Exchequer, is chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. A longer version appears in the May issue of Standpoint magazine: www.standpointmag.co.uk
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