Some Thing Wrong with our World

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Today sees another penetrating article on the climate change lobby by the excellent Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph. Booker examines the 'evidence' that has been presented to the political class and taken at face value, resulting in a race by politicians to 'out-green' opponents by pledging to dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions.

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Booker goes on to explain why the information being used by politicians to underpin 'green' policy can - putting it politely - be reasonably considered to be wrong. He covers topics that he has visited in the past, but in doing so continues to build a convincing case for not blindly accepting the various claims and scares. Booker goes to town today on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), charting the intellectual and political corruption behind what must the biggest (and most expensive) scam in the history of the planet.

Perhaps though the greatest evil perpetrated by the IPCC is the way it has distorted public policy, elevating "climate change" to the top of the political agenda and thus skewing expenditure priorities and the focus of public administration.

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No more so is this apparent than in the energy field where, instead of addressing the complex but technically solvable problems of providing cheap electricity for the masses, policy is totally bogged down by the fantasy of providing for a "carbon-free" future.

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Worse still, if we are entering a period of global cooling – which even the "warmists" admit is on the cards, the policy responses required are entirely different from those needed to deal with the warming scenario postulated by the IPCC.In that sense, the IPCC is directly responsible for a huge diversion of resources, on a global scale, sanctioning policies which have no foundation in reality while diverting attention from the nuts and bolts of good public administration that are needed to keep society functional.

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That this group of self-serving politicians and politico-scientists have been able to get away with it, though, is one of those latter-day marvels which defies explanation. As Booker demonstrates, so transparent is their fraud that it is almost inexplicable that the perpetrators have not been run out of town.Instead, they preen and posture as they collect their Nobel prizes, while the media laud them and perpetuate their propaganda. There is something very wrong with this world, and it ain't global warming.

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