BRUSSELS (AP) — British nationalist politician and climate change skeptic Nick Griffin will be part of the European Parliament delegation to next month's Copenhagen talks, an assembly spokesman said Sunday.
Griffin will be one of 15 Parliament members attending the talks, and will represent lawmakers outside the main political groupings, spokesman Simon Duffin said. He said Griffin had been selected by parliamentarians who are not part of other political groups in the Strasbourg-based assembly.
Griffin has described global warming as an "elite scam" and "an unproven theory based on manipulative statistics."
In Britain he is known for his extreme views, and his whites-only BNP political party opposes immigration and claims to fight for "indigenous" Britons.
"We feel it's good and in the British interests that at least one politician from Britain is going there and taking a skeptical view of things," BNP party spokesman John Walker said of Griffin's inclusion in the delegation.
Britain's climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, called Griffin's views on climate change "irresponsible and wrong."
"He cannot and does not represent the views of the people of the U.K. or of Europe," Miliband said.
