Article: Climate-change views welcomed

A retired Dutch palaeoclimatologist who has labelled man-made global warming the biggest scam in human history has had a warm reception in Nelson.

People packed the Nelson City Council civic chambers on Tuesday night to hear Dr Gerritt van der Lingen speak.

At the end of his talk, Dr van der Lingen thanked the audience for what he said was a frank discussion and the best presentation he had experienced.

He had earlier joked that friends had told him to expect a rough reception from "greenies" in Nelson.

Dr van der Lingen has previously written in the Nelson Mail that science has shown that while the Earth has warmed in the past 150 years by 0.6 degrees C, it has actually been cooling for ...

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