In 1985 he gave the BBC Reith Lectures,[4] which were published in the book Innocence and Design: The Influence of Economic Ideas on Policy (Blackwell, 1986).
[5] Henderson and Nigel Lawson appealed to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to investigate the economic implications of the potential implementation of policies put forth by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings.
Henderson and Ian Castles, a former head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics argued that the IPCC's projections of future emissions of greenhouse gases was flawed.
[14] Henderson has suggested about climate change that the science is not settled, and he specifically criticized the Stern Review regarding the economics of global warming.
The following year, Lawson went on to found The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate change denialist think-tank, whose Academic Advisory Council Henderson went on to chair.