Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has hit out at environmentalists, this time to describe predictions about climate change as “horseshit”.
He told The Independent newspaper that he thought the notion that man-made pollution was heating up the planet was nonsense.
He said: “We’ve had an ice age. We’ve also had a couple of very hot spells during the Middle Ages, so nobody can deny climate change.
“But there’s absolutely no link between man-made carbon, which contributes less than two per cent of total carbon emissions [and climate change].”
The controversial chief executive went on: “The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat.
"I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can’t tell us what the ******* weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the ******* global temperatures will be in 100 years’ time. It’s horse ****.”
Mole rather likes the response issued from Greenpeace spokesperson Joss Garman, however.
“Personally, I wouldn’t trust ‘O’Really’ to tell me the price of a seat on his own airline, but to be fair his position does have the support of such intellectual heavyweights as Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin and George W Bush.”
by Dinah Hatch
