When asked about Hurricane Rita bearing down on Houston, Sir John Lawton, chairman of the United Kingdom's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution lashed out the destructive policies of Bush administration. He referred to the President and his staff as "the climate loonies in the States."
When asked for clarification he said ""There are a group of people in various parts of the world ... who simply don't want to accept human activities can change climate and are changing the climate."
"I'd liken them to the people who denied that smoking causes lung cancer."
With his comments, Sir John becomes the third of the leaders of Britain's scientific establishment to attack the US over the Bush government's determination to cast doubt on global warming as a real phenomenon.
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