Another heretic (from Sunday Herald)

...Philip Lardner, the Tories' Westminster candidate in North Ayrshire and Arran, said the link between carbon emissions and global warming was being exaggerated by "doom sayers" and a self-interested "climate change lobby".

Lardner, 41, an advocate of nuclear power, attacked those promoting wind farms as a sustainable energy source.

"I hugely resent the subsidies that are being paid to wind-farm companies," he said. "Literally billions of pounds are being handed over to these people. They make a profit whether they generate any electricity at all."
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Some of Lardner's comments were captured on film last month in Renfrew at the inaugural Scottish meeting of the right-wing Freedom Association. Lardner, a primary school teacher, is the association's Scottish spokesman. The clip has been posted on the internet.

The remarks are an embarrassment for David Cameron, the Tory leader, who has gone out of his way to portray his party as more environmentally sensitive, and accepts carbon emissions cause global warming.