Speaking to Damien O’Reilly on RTÉ’s Countrywide on Saturday morning, O'Leary said he doesn’t “accept the connection between carbon consumption and climate change”.
O’Leary added: “People use very short-term weather analysis to justify climate change was happening.
“This kind of nonsense that we all need to cut back on beef production or that we all need to eat vegetables or go vegan and all start cycling bicycles is not the way forward. I think it’s complete and utter rubbish.
“You had these people standing round the market square 2,000 years ago saying the end of the world is nigh. In the 19th century in London, they thought they were all going to die from smog. There is always some lunatic out there who points to a load of rubbish science; science changes,” O’Leary said.
Irish Farmers Journal
Last month, O’Leary spoke exclusively to the Irish Farmers Journal about Brexit, beef farming and his Gigginstown pedigree sale.
O’Leary’s Gigginstown pedigree sale takes place on Saturday 15 April
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