Hard to believe this is still happening.

The Independent reports that northern Ireland's environment minister, Sammy Wilson, has banned ads urging people to fight climate change because he doesn't believe human beings have caused global warming. He has told the Irish Times that the ads are "partly information and partly insidious propaganda".

Wilson elaborates on his website: "I dispute the theory, and it is only a theory, that the world is warming due to C02 emissions and other human activity. Throughout the history of the earth temperatures have fluctuated, and we know this due to records which state that grapes used to be able to be grown in Scotland during Roman times and ice skaters could be seen on the Thames during the Victorian era. We have witnessed a period of global warming towards the end of the 20th century and we are now entering into a cooler period. These have occurred due to the natural variations in the temperature of the planet, not because of human activity."

You would think an environment minister might have a certain view on climate change. Unless there's no such thing as global warming in Northern Ireland.