The disturbing aspect of this is that he feels no need to hide his extremism, which shouldn't fly with most of the readership of the FT. He is camped on positions that Bush and other deniers have been forced to abandon even if they won't do anything to address climate change. It's one thing for think-tank free marketers to speak the language of the looney fringe, but the president of a european nation governed by a coalition that includes the green party? It boggles the mind.

He chose not to answer my question regarding his expertise w.r.t. the science, which is consistant with his summary dismissal of the scientific consensus on global warming.