Global warming is 'bulls**t' says Ryanair boss O'LearyBy Martin Hickman
Friday September 10 2010
Michael O'Leary claims there is no link between man-made carbon and climate change. Photo: Getty Images邁克爾奧利裡聲稱，沒有聯繫在人為二氧化碳和氣候變化之間。圖片：Getty圖像
Charging for toilets, weighing passengers and flying with a lone pilot: Ryanair's combative boss Michael O'Leary is renowned for backing unusual ideas, but some passengers may feel that even he has overstepped the mark with his latest comments – denying the existence of global warming.
廁所收費、磅重乘客和飛行以一個孤獨的飛行員：瑞安航空的好鬥老闆邁克爾奧利裡著名於支持不尋常的想法，但有些旅客可能覺得，他最新的評論甚至已過於出位 - 否認全球變暖的存在。
In an interview with The Independent littered with expletives, the chief executive of Europe's largest airline branded the scientific consensus that man-made pollution is heating up the planet with potentially grave consequences for the future of humanity as "horseshit".
在一次與獨立報的採訪中，充斥著咒罵，歐洲最大航空公司的行政總裁將污名加於科學共識上，即人為污染正在使地球變暖，對人類的未來具有潛在的嚴重後果，是“一派胡言”。
He agreed the climate was changing but denied it was caused by man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, such as those from his planes. "Nobody can argue that there isn't climate change. The climate's been changing since time immemorial," he said.
他同意氣候正在發生變化，但否認它是由於人為的二氧化碳排放，例如來自他的飛機的。 “沒有人可以爭辯是沒有氣候變化，但氣候自古以來一直在逐漸改變，”他說。
"Do I believe there is global warming? No, I believe it's all a load of bullshit. But it's amazing the way the whole fucking eco-warriors and the media have changed. It used to be global warming, but now, when global temperatures haven't risen in the past 12 years, they say 'climate change'."
“我是否相信有全球變暖？不，我相信它全是一派胡言。但令人驚訝的，但它是他媽的生態鬥士和媒體已改變的方式。它一向是全球變暖，但現在，當全球氣溫在過去 12年來沒有上升，他們卻說'氣候變化'。“
"Well, hang on, we've had an ice age. We've also had a couple of very hot spells during the Middle Ages, so nobody can deny climate change. But there's absolutely no link between man-made carbon, which contributes less than 2pc of total carbon emissions [and climate change]."
“哦，等一等，我們已有過一冰河時期，我們在中世紀亦有過幾次非常熱的魔咒，所以沒有人能夠否認氣候變化。但在人為二氧化碳之間絕對是沒有聯繫的，那導致不到2%的總碳排放量[和氣候變化]。“
He suggested scientists had invented and perpetuated the theory in order to gain research grants. "Scientists argue there is global warming because they wouldn't get half of the funding they get now if it turns out to be completely bogus," he said.
"The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat... I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can't tell us what the fucking weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the fucking global temperatures will be in 100 years' time. It's horseshit."
He mocked global warming campaigners, describing the United Nations as "one of the world's most useless organisations", its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as "utter tosh", and US politician Al Gore as someone who "couldn't even get fucking re-elected" after a boom.
Of air passenger duty in Britain, which will rise by between £1 and £30 in November, Mr O'Leary said: "When they introduced it the Treasury said: 'We will ring-fence this money and use it for global climate change initiatives'.
We've written to them once every six months – they never answer the letter – saying: 'What do you use the money for?' It's a straight-forward tax scam... My average fare is £34. I pay passenger tax of £10: I pay 33pc of my revenues in these aviation taxes.
"Aviation gets a crap deal. This is the great historical justification among environmentalists for taxing air travel: 'They don't have tax on fuel'. The only reason we don't pay tax on fuel is that governments can't tax it because you'll upload fuel somewhere else if they tax it."
To date, the US, UK, Germany, Japan, India, and China have all agreed on the existence of global warming, but have failed to agree binding emission targets to limit it. More than 2,500 scientists contributed to the IPCC's fourth assessment report in 2007, which warned that freak weather events such as flooding and drought will intensify, threatening agriculture and the livelihoods of millions.
Greenpeace issued a light-hearted response to Mr O'Leary's comments. "Personally, I wouldn't trust 'O'Really' to tell me the price of a seat on his own airline, but to be fair his position does have the support of such intellectual heavyweights as Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin and George W Bush," said Joss Garman, a Greenpeace spokesman.
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/global-warming-is-bullst-says-ryanair-boss-oleary-2333336.html
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