Ploughing through the new “Synthesis Report” put out by the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we may be reminded of one
of those old gramophone records, when the needle got horribly stuck in a
groove. Compiled by many of the IPCC’s veteran alarmists, in yet another bid
to get that “global climate treaty” that isn’t going to happen in Paris next
year, it wheels on all the familiar scare stories. Melting polar ice, rising
sea levels, floods, droughts and hurricanes are all in there – even though
these are largely contradicted not just by the actual evidence, but even by
the much more cautious contents of the vast technical reports they were
meant to be “synthesising”.
On the basis of these increasingly implausible claims, the report’s authors
join the growing chorus of calls for humanity to cut CO₂ emissions by 80 per
cent, the cost of which, they tell us, would only require us to reduce the
world’s economic growth by a mere 0.06 per cent, or 1/1,666th."
Christopher Booker
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