Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

The truth about global warming

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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