Anyone interested in climate change should buy The Spectator today. We don’t normally make such naked plugs here on Coffee House, but our global warming special has a line-up of the variety and quality which I guarantee you will find in no other British magazine or newspaper. As the FT’s Samuel Brittan says: we dare to debate.
You’ve seen the piece about why the Maldives aren’t sinking, from a world-leading sea levels expert who has made six field trips to the islands. We also have the Freakonomics guys showing how geo-engineering has such potential, even though the environmentalists don’t seem interested. We unearth a never-seen-before CIA file from 1974 which shows how all the scientists were convinced about global … cooling (proof that even scientific consensus is subject to change). Samuel Brittan himself has written a powerful piece on why we must dare to debate global warming. There’s Paul Reiter, a world-leading Malaria expert, on why Gore’s predictions about malaria outbreak are concocted (and this we send to schools on a DVD!). Robert Mendelson, a reknowned environmental economist from Yale, takes apart the Stern review. The editor of an architects magazine, Amanda Bailleu, has a stunning story about what happened when she became the target of a heretic hunt from the global warming alarmists. Rupert Darwell has a great wee piece on why Marx would be a denier: he rejected this Malthusian ‘we’re all doomed’ stuff and called this analysis a ‘slander on mankind’. All of this is – like the Spectator itself – spiced with the best cartoons in Britain.
For the paltry outlay of £3.20
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