At the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) board meeting on Tuesday, Julian Fell, alternate director for Electoral Area F, claimed global warming was “not happening” and is based on “junk science.”
The RDN board was debating developing a regional strategy for net zero buildings and localized energy generation.
“At the risk of offending every true climate believer I think the whole climate thing is a bit of a fiasco,” he said. “We’ve been facing this global warming thing now for 45 years and it’s not happening.”
Dr. Simon Donner is a climate scientist and a professor at the University of British Columbia.
“What the regional director said is an old kind of anti-science trope that I’m surprised to even hear today,” he told CHLY.
The RDN board voted to move ahead with developing a strategy for net zero buildings and localized energy generation with directors Fell, Ian Thorpe and Lehann Wallace opposed.
