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In
a startling new book, Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists, who have pushed flawed theories on
global warming for decades, now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages
"Next Thursday marks the first
anniversary of one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the House of Commons. For six hours MPs
debated what was far and away the most expensive piece of legislation ever put before Parliament.
The
Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by
well over 80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be
achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialised economy, changing our way of life out of
recognition.
...no one has put the reality of the situation more succinctly than Prof Richard Lindzen of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy, one of the most distinguished climatologists in the world, who has done
as much as anyone in the past 20 years to expose the emptiness of the IPCC’s claim that its reports
represent a “consensus” of the views of “the world’s top climate scientists”.
In words quoted on the cover of my new book, Prof Lindzen wrote: “Future generations will wonder in
bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally
averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly
exaggerated computer predictions combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a
rollback of the industrial age.”
Such is the truly extraordinary position in which we find
ourselves. Thanks to misreading the significance of a brief period of rising temperatures at the end of the
20th century, the Western world (but not India or China) is now contemplating measures that add up to the most
expensive economic suicide note ever written.
How long will it be before sanity and sound science break in
on what begins to look like one of the most bizarre collective delusions ever to grip the human race?"
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