High Wycombe MP Steve Baker calls campaign group clowns

An eagle-eyed member of the public noticed the sign which had been attached to a lamppost outside the town’s McDonald’s branch along the High Street.

It reads: “Steve Baker MP, 2010-2025.

👍The new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel has said that IPCC scenarios should not be misrepresented and that increases of 1.5 degrees do not pose the existential threat that many politically motivated activists often claim.

🙄When I said this, I was called a “denier”. We can… https://t.co/TUveYq6tF4

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) August 4, 2023

“Had his photo taken here. That’s all he did.”

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It has since been confirmed that the Steve Baker Watch group were responsible for the mock blue plaque, which has been up on the lamppost since the end of May this year.

The plaque has been in High Wycombe since May (NQ) (Image: NQ)

The campaign group formed at the beginning of 2022 following what they described as the politician’s ‘slow response and denial’ to help tackle climate change.   

During that time, they have held peaceful demonstrations such as holding vigils outside of his office and have asked to meet up with the 52-year-old to discuss the matter.

📈I have highlighted time and again that the science should be presented accurately and that now implausible high emissions scenarios should be presented as such.

📉I am pleased to see the Scientific Steering Committee take action to correct this.https://t.co/vN9ECuzmRV

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) August 4, 2023

Gemma Rodgers, who is from the group, said: “This is just one of the many things that we do as Steve Baker is a global warming denier.

“We have sent a leaflet to every constituency in High Wycombe explaining how climate change needs to be taken seriously and whilst the years on the plaque were tongue and cheek, we would like an MP who can help us get to net zero by 2030.

“Climate change is an existential crisis and we’ve seen it devastate countries such as Spain, Canada, Australia and Pakistan and it will eventually come here to the UK.

❌I've long warned of the dangers of groups that use extreme tactics, like Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion.

📝Unfortunately, Labour & Sir Keir Starmer have given into their main demands. Just Stop Oil & XR are effectively writing Labour policy.https://t.co/re2NhFgcMU

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) August 4, 2023

“Urgent action is needed as he’s been very slow in reacting to everything.

“We’re not politically aligned but we want an MP who wants to mitigate climate change.”

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However, the MP was not impressed with the stunt and believes that those associated with Steve Baker Watch should read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) information on the issue.

🇬🇧Measures like Great British Nuclear will deliver our energy independence in a sustainable and climate-friendly way.

💡Granting more licences so we can use our full gas reserves will reduce our dependence on imported LNG - often arriving on diesel-powered ships - helping to…

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) August 4, 2023

In a series of tweets that we wrote at the back end of July to the start of August, he explained how he was called a ‘denier’ when expressing that a rise of 1.5°C in temperature would not pose an ‘existential threat.’

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👇Find my view set out in full, here:https://t.co/CdruVVX0gh

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) August 4, 2023

Steve Baker MP told the Free Press: “Their nonsense does not deserve the dignity of a response.

“If these clowns won’t listen to the UN’s IPCC or the independent Committee on Climate Change, then they are hardly likely to respond positively to me.”