A Tory MP who tried to call Greta Thunberg out took a hammering on social media this weekend.
The climate activist had accused the UK of using “creative carbon accounting” to present a misleading picture of our climate credentials last week.
It follows an announcement by the PM that the UK has “managed to reduce its CO2 emissions by about 42 per cent on 1990 levels” at the Leaders’ Climate Summit in April.
Thunberg challenged the claim, branding it “a lie” and disputing the veracity of labelling the UK a “climate leader”.
She accused the UK of cherry-picking its data to appear to have reduced CO2 emissions more than it actually has, saying: “Of course, if you don’t include all emissions, the statistics are going to look much nicer.”
The figure would not “look that good”, she claimed, if a number of excluded aspects had been factored in, listing “aviation, shipping, outsourcing, the imports of consumption… and the burning of biomass”.
John Redwood stepped in to rebuke her claims, tweeting: “Greta Thunberg should withdraw her false accusations about the UK. She should concentrate on China which produces 27 times the amount of CO2 the UK does.”
But he was duly corrected by the Twitterati.
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