WEATHERMAN John Kettley has slammed reports that Ed Miliband is to invest millions in experiments aimed at dimming the sun, calling the decision “disgusting” and “absolutely ridiculous”.

In a discussion with Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce on GB News, he said: “I don’t want to go on about Miliband, but as far as I’m concerned, you should just leave things as they are, because everything will balance out in the end.

“At the moment, we’re having a very dry spring. That’s got nothing to do with climate change and the rain will return and the colder weather will return as well, and we’ll have seasons ahead of us, not only this year, but in years to come.

“They may not always occur at exactly the same time of the year. There might be a fluctuation by a week or two, and some summers you will get hotter weather than you will in other summers as well.

“We had that 40 degree [heatwave] for example just a few years ago. That’s been nowhere near challenged in the past two years, and it may not be challenged this year, because at some point the weather’s going to break and this sunny weather that we’ve got just now will suddenly be replaced by some wetter conditions.

“I really do not think you should be playing God with the weather. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Let it do what it is doing naturally and normally and has done for decades.”

He added: “For many, many years, people, the conspiracy theorists…and people who are trying to sell their websites, for example, with the YouTube channels, to get more and more input into their YouTube channels to make their living, they’ve got to be extreme, haven’t they?

“I don’t believe in extremes when it comes to our normal weather in this country

“For example, for years some people have been saying that we didn’t have contrails, aircraft lines, in the sky 20 or 30 years ago. People were saying it was not like this, we didn’t use to have these contrails in the sky.

“This is a conspiracy, absolute rubbish. You can look at photographs from the World War Two, for example, from the Battle of Britain, and you can see contrails in the sky.

“There’s nothing new with this. It’s absolute nonsense. It’s people trying to jump on bandwagons.

“I’ve got my feet on the ground. I am a scientist when it comes down to it, but I know nothing about this sort of engineering and trying to manipulate the weather. I think it’s absolutely stupid.

“It would cost far too much money, and I think the evidence would suggest probably that we’re having very little effect.”

On Miliband committing £50 million to research, he said: “I think that’s disgusting, quite honestly. And it’s not the only disgusting thing that this government’s doing, is it?

“I’m not going into politics. I’m too late for that. But I just cannot stand some of the things that are going on in the last six, eight and ten, nine months, or whatever it is. I would sign any petition, I can tell you.”