Shorter Iain Murray

Gorey Truths:

1 - 11 and 13: It's not happening
12 and 14 - 20: Even if it is, it ain't that bad
21 - 25: Even if it were bad, we shouldn't do anything about it because we might all die of poverty.

In The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford writes, “If we are honest, then, the argument that trade leads to economic growth, which leads to climate change, leads us then to a stark conclusion: we should cut our trade links to make sure that the Chinese, Indians and Africans stay poor. The question is whether any environmental catastrophe, even severe climate change, could possibly inflict the same terrible human cost as keeping three or four billion people in poverty. To ask that question is to answer it.” ...

All of the current proposals in Congress would cost the economy significant amounts, making us all poorer, with all that that entails for human health and welfare, while doing nothing to stop global warming.

Hold on...who's the alarmist?

Meanwhile, of course, the NAS confirmed the hockey stick model today. Bad timing, Iain.