The councilor responsible for La Devesa-Albufera, José Gosálbez, took advantage of his speech at the opening of the international conference on ‘Conservation and management of wetlands in the face of climate change’ to defend the position of his party -Vox- against climate change. Gosálbez, in an act as a representative of the Valencia City Council, amended the title of the summit that he inaugurated and pointed out that “global warming is an unproven hypothesis, but one that has been accepted as good, without examination, almost as an act.” of faith, the less rigorous politicians”. To which he added, “as if the climate had not been constantly changing since the beginning of time.”
In an auditorium and with a program of a markedly scientific nature, the Vox councilor has warned that from the climate change discourse, “a good number of scientists have already emerged, some of them Nobel Prize winners.” In his speech, Gosálbez stressed that “the problem of a wetland like the Albufera is not climate change (climate alarmism, I would say, or climate religion if you prefer).”
For the representative of the council chaired by María José Catalá, “this speech about the climate bubble has served nothing more than an ideological lure and a waste of public money that could be better used to facilitate non-invasive industrial development.”
In this sense, he has defended his commitment, and that of the local government, “to the defense of the environment, ecosystems, biological diversity and the integration of human tasks in the natural environment” such as fishing, agriculture and The hunt.
The words of the councilor, who was acting as a representative of the council, have generated criticism from Compromís councilor Sergi Campillo, present at the event, who regretted that “the evidence of climate change in front of the scientific community” is denied.
Likewise, former mayor Joan Ribó (also from Compromís), has pointed out that it is an “insult and a shame for Valencia” and both have held the mayor responsible for having given him the responsibility of protecting L’Albufera.
Campillo explained on social networks that while the Vox councilor was speaking “some of the attendees left the room.” Gosálbez’s team tells La Vanguardia that there has been no such commotion, although they have acknowledged that “4 or 5 people have gotten up and left the room… perhaps they were heading to some meeting whose presence was inexcusable.” Something difficult to justify since the conference had just started.
