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A wicked orthodoxy

Global-warming alarmism has become a substitute religion, attended by   all the intolerant zealotry that has so often marred religion in the past

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

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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