When your reputation is for being spectacularly corrupt, pro-imperialist, repressive, anti-democratic and intolerant you probably reckon that taking the side of climate change sceptics is not going to lose you many more friends. The statement by Mohammad Al-Sabban Saudi Arabia’s lead climate negotiator, referring to the hacked e mails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that, “It appears from the details of the scandal that there is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change” has absolutely no credibility.
The country’s only noteworthy industry is the extraction of carbon from the ground in order that it can be pumped into the air. It’s is rudimentary physics, so simple that even non-scientists get it. Infrared radiation trapped in a planet’s atmosphere increases in line with the quantity of carbon dioxide the atmosphere contains. That makes it warmer. That changes weather systems and melts icecaps. No number of foolish phrased e mails change that and it instantly makes everything Al-Sabban and hirelings like him have to see not worthy of consideration.
Al-Sabban has given us one more reason to be at the Campaign Against Climate Change is rally at Speakers Corner at 12.00 tomorrow and then join the Wave demonstration in Grosvenor Square at 1.30 to demand
- Declaration of a Climate Emergency
- 10% cuts by end 2010
- A million green jobs by end 2010
- Ban domestic flights
- 55 mph speed limit – scrap the roads programme
- End agrofuel use
Liam redux 
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