MICHAEL O’LEARY HAS dismissed global warming concerns in an interview with the Independent.
O’Leary accepted that the climate was changing, but denied that industrial and man-made pollutants have played a part in that change.
After telling the London paper that the climate “has been changing since time immemorial”, Ryanair’s CEO added:
Do I believe there is global warming? No, I believe it’s all a load of bullshit. But it’s amazing the way the whole fucking eco-warriors and the media have changed.
It used to be global warming, but now, when global temperatures haven’t risen in the past 12 years, they say ‘climate change’.
He dismissed scientific theories on climate change, saying that scientists have been nearly always wrong in history, and cited Galileo’s unpopularity with his peers as an example.
O’Leary also mocked the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and former US vice-president, Al Gore. He claimed that a UK levy marked for use in climate change research was a “straight-forward tax scam”.
Carbon emissions from planes are considered by the EU as one of the largest single contributors to the level of greenhouse gas released annually.
In April, the website Information is Beautiful compared the level of airline emissions with emissions from the Icelandic volcano which disrupted air travel across Europe. It calculated that the flights cancelled over the period of volcanic disturbance would save 206,465 tons of CO2 emissions.
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