Why are so many intelligent people taken in by the climate change argument? I have long (and genuinely) suspected I’m missing something. So I tuned in to Start The Week to hear Sir Nicholas Stern back with a new book on climate change – which (surprise, surprise) he says has grown far worse since he came out with his review in Oct 06. Andrew Marr asked him why he, with a “flip of the wrist,” dismisses the argument of those who do not believe it is man-made. (There is a “yearning,” Marr says, to believe that it’s not really our fault). Stern (who has zero scientific expertise) replied that the “status of that argument now is like that between HIV and Aids or smoking and lung cancer.” Note a key characteristic of the climate change brigade: refusal even to recognise the opposing argument. And it is this which makes me so suspicious.
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