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by opium_tea 4046 days ago
Sometimes these crackpots are people of high social status (well, sort of...)

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/14/science...

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Mocton is a hereditary peer. It's worrying that those people have some power, but it could be worse.

The previous English minister for energy and climate change (Matthew Hancock) is a climate change denier who refuses to discuss anything related to climate change and who accepts large donations from other prominent climate change deniers.

http://rt.com/uk/248605-climate-skeptic-donations-hancock/