I saw that. It stinks of dogma. Not so far in spirit from the Catholic Exclusion Acts. It's an astonishing breach of democratic principles. I say that as someone who believes climate change is man made and government isn't doing near enough to treat it seriously.
I, too, found this very disturbing. My impression of the Green Party has long been - nice people who have the best of intensions. As would be obvious from the 'Climate Thread', my views are very far from the 'concensus' - CO2 does warm the earth but by about 1/3 of what's being claimed.
Climate is not really the issue here though. It is the idea that people are not allowed to hold opposing views at all. From the same article -
Pressed on the issue, she agreed that even the chief veterinary officer should be removed if he didn't sign up to the view on climate change also taken by the Green Party.
A policy document released by the party said: "Get rid of any cabinet ministers or senior governmental advisers who refuse to accept the scientific consensus on climate change or who won't take the risks to the UK seriously."
In that Climate Thread I regularly (not so much recently though watch that space) cross swords with Rojo and Bio. I put up a graph which showed a raft of climate model predictions compared to observations. The observations tracked well under predictions and Rojo's and Bio's reaction was to condemn the author - a Prof Christy. Now I've seen this bloke on a clip from a Congressional Hearing. By my lights (an atheist) his religious views are, to say the least a bit cooky - Southern Bible belt creationism etc. No rebuttal of the facts of the graph though, just an ad hominem attack on his Christianity.
I seem to see it everywhere. If you don't believe in, and espouse, the party line ('Climate Consensus' etc) you're somehow evil and, in the above case, should be fired and not allowed to earn a living.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into this and Natalie Bennett just got a bit carried away on a subject she cares passionately about. Can't say I'd want her in a position of power and responsibility though.