International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan sent tweets dismissing climate change campaigners
The new has become embroiled in a row on her first day after it emerged she once dismissed those who believe in global warming as fanatics. , who replaced Liz Truss in Wednesdays reshuffle, was yesterday accused of rejecting the science behind after a series of old tweets came to light. The tweets, sent between 2010 and 2012, include one which says: [There is] clear evidence that the ice caps arent melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics. Another, sent in support of a campaign against windfarms, said: We arent getting hotter, global warming isnt actually happening. A third approvingly shared an article by Climate Realists, a Twitter group that rejects global warming. And another from 2011 compared the views of a climate change denier with the ideological obsession with human-made climate change of the then energy secretary Chris Huhne. Yesterday Labours trade spokesman Emily Thornberry blasted the comments. Referencing Miss Trusss decision to appoint former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott as a trade envoy, she tweeted: At least the last Trade Secretary only hired climate change deniers. Asked about Mrs Trevelyans tweets, the Prime Ministers official spokesman said: Every single member of Cabinet is united in our approach to achieve our ambitious climate target goals. The Department for International Trade has been contacted for comment.