Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I hope to persist in the positive and non-confrontational tone of my colleague. All of us now accept the reality of climate change. Let us not ignore the extraordinarily intense rearguard action, which still continues and which was manifested on Channel 4 a few weeks back, of pseudo-science by pseudo-scientists and a pseudo-director who has a reputation for enjoying the fact he says the opposite of everybody else, regardless of whether it happens to be true. Some of his comments to critics which I saw recorded today amount to four-letter words and no more. When eminent scientists contacted him, the reply was a four-letter word.