Senior Liberal MP Craig Kelly has come under fire over climate denial in a trainwreck interview on morning television in the UK.
As deadly fires continue burning across the south and east of Australia, Mr Kelly was fronting Good Morning Britain to defend the Prime Minister and his own comments about climate change, oil and coal.
It comes after Mr Kelly told the BBC on Saturday that fires were a result of “drying” of the environment but that Australian scientists had disproved any link between climate change and drought.
He doubled down while under questioning from Good Morning Britain hosts, saying the bushfire crisis was due to a lack of hazard reduction burning.
Craig Kelly MP defends Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to the wildfire crisis and says there isn’t a link between climate change and bushfires.@piersmorgan | @susannareid100 | #GMB pic.twitter.com/Mz0dxJSK5T
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 6, 2020
The show’s weather presenter Laura Tobin slammed Mr Kelly as “not a climate sceptic” but a “climate denier”.
“Australia have just had in 2019 their highest year temperature-wise ever recorded and their driest year ever record with forecast temperatures that go back over 100 years,” Ms Tobin said.
“At the moment we want everyone to commit in the world to be one-and-a-half degrees to lower our global temperature rise. You can’t even commit to two degrees.
Laura Tobin takes on climate change sceptic and Australian MP Craig Kelly, who believes global warming was not the cause of the Australian bushfires.
Watch here – https://t.co/cxCJjHrWnR@Lauratobin1 #Australia pic.twitter.com/dcJD37AyxG
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 6, 2020
“You have the second-highest carbon emission per person on Earth and you are burying your head in the sand…this is a climate emergency.”
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