Tom Harwood left a Just Stop Oil person almost speechless after he questioned her attack on GB News’ environmental position.
Zoe Cohen had been invited onto Good Afternoon Britain to give her take on Cop28 and Rishi Sunak’s pledge not to allow ‘zealots’ to dictate climate policy.
But she seemed intent on focusing on other matters, with GB News’ stance on environmental matters at the forefront of the discussion.
Questioned on Just Stop Oil’s position on the upcoming Cop28 conference, Cohen said: “First of all I think what is really important to say is the funder and founder of this channel has major oil interests.
Tom Harwood clashed with Just Stop Oil's Zoe Cohen
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“GB News isn’t a news station at all. It’s a misinformation founded by oil interests. All you’re doing is pushing misinformation and climate denial and delay.”
Harwood snapped back: “In that case, why did I spend quite a lot of my time last year arguing to legalise onshore wind turbines?
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PA“Why did I take the Tories, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats to task for blocking nuclear power?
“Why have so many people working for this channel being on the pro-growth, pro-green side of this argument?”
Cohen admitted: “I don’t know.”
Emily Carver waded in by drawing Cohen’s attention to “what we want to discuss”, that being the Cop28 conference in Dubai.
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, to add to his sentiments expressed in the GB News interview, Harwood said of Just Stop Oil: “How these people can argue that they are trying to avert armageddon - all whilst campaigning against effective forms of CO2 reduction - is completely beyond me.”
“Gruel for brains”, he added.
The Cop28 international summit will be graced with royalty as King Charles prepares to deliver a speech on Friday.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron is also in Dubai, attending a number of events with the King.
In the Paris Agreement in 2015, countries agreed to limit the average global temperature rise to 2C above pre-industrial levels and make every effort to stop it rising above 1.5C.
WH Smith, DHL, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Virgin Media O2 have joined more than 200 businesses to call for an international agreement to phase out all fossil fuels at Cop28.
