The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, November 02, 2014

Business As Usual

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued another of its bizarre reports, this time proclaiming that halting climate change is affordable and could also help to prevent poverty. Since governments and their sponsors do not care about what is affordable for the rest of us, but only about what is profitable for them, it is difficult to see what the IPCC hoped to achieve by pointing this out. The IPCC also takes note of the achievements of the past few years, observing that carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are rising and not falling; doubtless this accounts for the deletion of a statement that politicians are biased towards the status quo. Obviously it would be unjust to accuse (to take a purely random example) the greenest government ever of standing still, when in fact it has devoted so much effort to going backwards.

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