Jeremy Clarkson walks back previous climate change dismissal as a joke [Video]

Jeremy Clarkson has taken a u-turn on his previous comments disregarding climate change after seeing its effects on farm life.

The former Top Gear host runs a 1000-acre site named Diddly Squat in the Cotswolds – a project documented in the Prime Video series, Clarkson’s Farm.

Though Clarkson, 64, has owned the site since 2008, he only began managing it in 2019 after the farmer who previously maintained the land retired.

In a new interview with The Guardian, the Grand Tour star enthusiastically discussed some of the natural processes that affect farming, such as changing levels of rain and snowfall.

Clarkson has previously been criticised for dismissing climate change concerns. In 2022, he inferred that global warming had ended after some days of unusually hot weather, which resulted in the death of his farm’s “big pig”.

When asked about …