David "Let's Cut The Green Crap" Cameron Faces Denialist Rebellion Within Tory Ranks

David Cameron faces a major party rebellion over climate change, with Conservative funders giving money to climate denialists and calling for a party rethink on its policy of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

DeSmog UK has identified five generous Tory donors, including two members of the House of Lords, who have together provided the party with £3.6 million while simultaneously bankrolling Lord Lawson’s climate denial charity, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The revelations come as Cameron returns from the UN summit on climate change in New York, during which he claimed to have kept his promise to deliver the “greenest government ever”.

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The anti-climate charge within the Tory party is now being led by Owen Paterson, the sacked environment minister who will be giving the GWPF annual lecture in October. He has threatened to establish his own think tank in order to attack climate science as well as address other issues that divide the Tories. George Osborne, the chancellor and a likely future Tory party leadership contender, remains close to his Treasury predecessor Lord Lawson, and climate denial offers the perfect opportunity to connect with funders furious at Cameron’s attempt to greenwash the Tories. Former cabinet minister, Peter Lilley MP, has also given support to the denial faction of the party.

Lawson and his foundation questions the scientific evidence for climate change and attacks government policy on cutting emissions—but has long refused to reveal just where its money comes from. Lawson recently launched a new forum as a political campaign arm of his foundation, with eight months to go until the general election. Some GWPF donors have even threatened to leave the Conservative party and instead join the right-wing rivals UKIP, as the rift between traditional industrialists and the modernisers grows increasingly wider over the themes of climate change, the environment more generally, and also the explosive row over Europe.

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http://www.desmog.uk/2014/09/29/david-go-green-cameron-s-top-donors-financing-climate-denial