Donald Trump: Climate campaigner Al Gore 'should be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize after record snow storms'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:47 PM on 15th February 2010

Sceptic: Straight-talking tycoon Donald Trump attacked Al Gore's policies on climate change
Donald Trump has called for Al Gore to be stripped of the Nobel Peace prize he was awarded for campaigning on climate change.

The billionaire tycoon said record-breaking snow storms proved that the former US Vice-President was wrong on global warming, and that policies aimed at tackling carbon emissions were harming America's economy.

His comments follow a string of high-profile attacks on climate change advocates. 
Scientists have been forced to defend themselves after embarrassing admissions that some of their evidence was faulty.

Gore has become one of the world's leading global warming activists since his documentary An Inconvenient Truth became a surprise hit in 2006. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

But Trump, who hosts the US version of The Apprentice, said the Nobel Committee should now strip him of the award following one of the worst ever winters in eastern America.

He said in a speech: 'With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.'

He added: 'Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less.

'It would make us totally non-competitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity.'

A crowd of 500 at the businessman's Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York, stood up and cheered the remarks, the New York Post reported.

Washington DC and surrounding areas were buried under more than two feet of snow last week in blizzards that President Barack Obama dubbed 'Snowmageddon'.

But organisers of the Winter Olympics 3,000 miles away in Vancouver, Canada, had to ship in extra snow to ensure the games could go ahead despite unseasonably warm weather.

Many scientists have gone to great lengths to explain that the record snowfalls do not disprove man-made global warming, while some have even said climate change could have contributed to the storms.

But they face a growing movement of climate change sceptics in Britain and the US.

The scientific community has been forced onto the back foot following claims that climate data has been 'manipulated' to bolster the case for action on carbon emissions.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has resisted calls for his resignation after the body admitted a series of mistakes, including a false claim included in an influential report that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

The panel has been mired in controversy since the leaking of emails from the climate change unit at The University of East Anglia, which appeared to show that data used to bolster the IPCC's claims had been manipulated.

Critics also claim the UEA's researchers acted to stop papers they did not like from being published in journals and refused to share their data with sceptics.

This week the unit's former head Professor Phil Jones, performed a majot u-turn and admitted there had been no 'statistically significant' global warming in the last 15 years. 

And new research cast serious doubt on temperature records from around the world which have been used as evidence for global warming.