“Horse Sh*t”: Ryanair Chief Rejects Theory Of Man-Made Global Warming
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The chief executive is known for ruffling feathers, previously suggesting he would like to charge passengers to use the lavatory on his flights and make overweight passengers pay extra.
His latest comments, in which he said the idea man-made pollution is heating up the planet is “horse ****”, have struck a sour note with environmental campaigners – something which is unlikely to unduly trouble O’Leary.
He said in an interview with The Independent: “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 two per cent of total Carbon Emissions [and climate change].”
He added: “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 ******* weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the ******* global temperatures will be in 100 years’ time. It’s horse ****.”
In response, Greenpeace spokeswoman Joss Garman said: “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.”
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