Alarm at Proposal to Appoint Climate Science Denier Charles Moore BBC Chairman

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Rumours that former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore is being considered as a potential candidate to chair the BBC have been met with condemnation over the Conservative peer’s views on climate change.

A long-time critic of the BBC, Lord Moore has frequently dismissed concerns about the impact of rising emissions on the climate, arguing in an appearance on Question Time that “a sort of project fear” was being promoted around the issue.