Fraser Myers delves into the origins of Britain’s ideological climate policy in Spiked. Myers argues that the recent Green Alliance report shows that the ostensible “consensus” on climate policy is only among political elites. Polls – and a recent byelection – reveal that so-called deep public support vanishes when austere sacrifices are cited. So then how democratic is environmental policy?
Forget Everything I Said, or Backing Slowly out of the Echo-Chamber
Climate catastrophism suffered a Category 5 event with the recent confessional by Ted Nordhaus, among the world’s foremost prophets of doom, that he had it wrong all along. The models that forecast runaway global warming, Nordhaus writes in The Free Press, assumed simultaneously soaring populations, booming economies and flatlining technological improvement which, Nordhaus has belatedly recognized, simply can’t all occur at the same time.
