Nigel Lawson

DEEP THOUGHT: Climate of superstition

Nigel Lawson says that the only way to deal with global warming is to reject the religious zeal of the green lobby

issue 11 March 2006

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
Schopenhauer

Next week marks the deadline that has been set for reactions to the less than satisfactory discussion paper that has emerged from the government’s belated review of the important issue of the economics of climate change.

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