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Britain has consistently been a leader in the fight against climate change, which goes far towards explaining the latest findings on concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Levels of carbon dioxide nitrous oxide and methane all rose last year by more than the decade's average, according to mere experts at the World Meteorological Organisation. On the bright side, the immediate effects will be visited mostly upon the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations; but since the fiend Corbyn was deservedly derided for pointing this out in public, the Independent newspaper has wisely chosen to emphasise predictions of "mass displacement on an unprecedented scale." Britain's leadership might assume yet further dimensions of unrivalled unassailability, if only politicians had the courage to point out that climate change causes migrants.