Nothing in today’s global climate is “anywhere near out of the ordinary,” according to former Greenpeace Canada president Patrick Moore.

“The climate has always been changing and it always will,” Mr Moore told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

He said the whole “climate catastrophe, emergency” situation is something which is “totally fabricated in the first place”.

“The beginning of human civilisation came with this interglacial period, and the temperature and the weather in this interglacial period has been a lot more extreme at times than it is today,” he said.

“This is a relatively benign time for the modern era of climate and weather.”