Climate sceptic Lord Monckton unveils UKIP climate change policy

As a result he said that UKIP’s policy would be to cease funding for the IPCC, pull out of the EU’s Carbon Trading Scheme and to establish a Royal Commission that would allow scientists on both sides of the debate to research climate change and come to a conclusion.

This, he said, would allow politicians to then act sensibly in response to the science rather than spending billions at a time of recession on ineffective carbon emission measures, when “the science is not settled”.

Lord Pearson welcomed the policy as a possible vote winner, citing a recent Guardian poll which found that the number of people sceptical of climate change has increased 50 per cent to around four out of five people, despite the three main parties giving a high priority to fighting climate change.