I was persuaded then, and remain persuaded now, that the costs of economic growth are seen in the climate breakdown that challenges our very existence, not just our economy.
They gave that laddie the Nobel for exploring the externalities of the economy, right?
I was persuaded then, and remain persuaded now, that polar bears will all die out, there will be no ice in the Arctic, children will never see snow, the Maldives and much of the UK and elsewhere will be under water, we will all die of malaria, crops will fail, and the sky will fall in, in 2012-ish.
PS Can I have the cash to buy beachfront property in Martha’s Vineyard, fly private jets everywhere, and bang the living daylights out of $2000-a-night hookers while mainlining Kobe beef?
Nah, just the counterfeit Nobel.
Proposition: all climate waffle should begin “In the present Interglacial …”
Useful bit of perspective, that.
Even Greta got bored of the climate doom nonsense. It’s getting like those Japanese WW2 soldiers who refuse to believe the war is over
It’s worse. Those Japs weren’t getting paid by us, too.
Remember mass extinctions? Yeah, it turned out that was bollox as well.
Still possible… One winter in the Dark, and you’re bound to see a mass extinction of the Green-Progressive species….
Quite a brutal one at that..
I can’t say I’ve read the book he is quoting there as it’s from the 1960s (E. J Mishan) – reading his bio am guessing he was a Soviet sympathiser if not directly employed thereby. Otherwise the usual reversion to medieval life and ‘rewilding’ fantasies!
Wasn’t 1960s climate change all about freezing to death in an ice age? The science was settled apparently.
Tim, don’t make fun of Murphy, you’re both on the same side of the debate.
I wonder if the final collapse of the climate panic will come once everyone realises that it is only the fruitloops who still bang on about it?
Old Yorkshire saying: where there’s muck there’s brass.
I may have mentioned before that volcanoes spew out ten to a hundred times more CO2 than all of human activities combined. Yet Mad Ed doesn’t have a plan for capping them.