TV station fires climate sceptic forecaster

A weather forecaster for French state television has been fired after releasing and promoting a book criticising politicians, scientists, and others for what he calls an exaggerated view of climate change.

Philippe Verdier’s dismissal from France-2 comes a month before Paris hosts a UN conference aimed at the most ambitious worldwide agreement yet to limit global warming.

He announced the dismissal in an online video in which he described it as an attack on media freedom.