Global Warming

Everything has costs and benefits, even climate change, though green ideologues don’t want the public to consider this.

Almost all of us discovered as children that fear is effective. A friend of mine, father of two very active children, ages six and nine, tells them when they don’t want to go to bed and prefer to pillow-fight for hours that if they don’t go to sleep a six-headed monster will come out of the closet and devour them. It works for him. It seems a bit cruel to me (six heads are too many), but his defense is also reasonable: “The dark bags under my eyes are cruel too.” Fear has always worked. And prophetic fear, that which foretells that something terrible is going to happen, is the most effective of all.

Hold the front page: it’s hot in Greece. Italy, too. And – if you can believe it – in the south of Spain. Blaring sunshine on the Costa del Sol in the middle of July – will wonders never cease? Reading the newspaper coverage of this sunshine, you could be forgiven for thinking it was unheard of. That the Mediterranean had never sweltered before. That the streets of Athens and beaches of Alicante had never baked in the midday heat. ‘Italy swelters’, ‘Holiday hell’, ‘Unbearable’, scream the headlines, as if a most unusual calamity, unknown in the annals of time, had struck southern Europe.

There is no path to a prosperous and decarbonised future without nuclear power.

Bjorn Lomborg explains why climate alarmism does more harm than good.

Environmentalist campaigners tell us that the world is on the brink of destruction. Industrial society, they say, has led to a climate emergency. Governments have added their voices to this fevered cry, committing trillions of pounds to preventing the coming disaster. But are we really doomed?