IPCC reports sift the mountain of scientific research on climate change. While there is quality evidence that average global temperatures have risen by just over 1c over the past 150 years, the claims that we are headed soon for an ‘unliveable Earth’ racked by Biblical storms, unsurvivable temperatures and endless fires is nothing more than irresponsible scaremongering. The apocalyptic language is traumatising people - and worse - without good reason. Some studies found these rise when there is an extreme weather event. There is emerging evidence that climate worries are leading to anxiety disorders and depression among the young. A shocking 56 per cent said they believed humans were doomed.Ī whole generation has been mentally scarred. politician Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth while at school.Īccording to a global survey in 2021 of 10,000 people aged 16 to 25, two-thirds said they were ‘anxious’, ‘sad’ or ‘afraid’ at the prospect of climate change. But this climate hysteria has real consequences, especially among young people brought up on a diet of gloom, beginning, in many cases, by being shown the U.S. I am not denying the need to address the problems posed by a warming planet, and to slow, where we can, the temperature change. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres told us ‘the climate time bomb is ticking’, and called for developed countries to commit to eliminating all net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 If only.Įd Miliband, as ever, claimed that we need to slash carbon emission far faster than we are doing to ensure that our children have a ‘liveable’ future.Īnd, adding to the canon of catastrophising language, on Tuesday the UN published a report claiming that the world is indulging in ‘vampiric over-consumption’ of water - and has flown 6,500 delegates to New York in gas-guzzling aeroplanes to discuss the crisis. Greenpeace claimed it amounted to our ‘final warning’. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres told us ‘the climate time bomb is ticking’, and called for developed countries to commit to eliminating all net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 - a decade earlier than Britain’s already near-impossible net zero target. On Monday, the publication of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was greeted with the usual hysteria which we have become used to with these publications. How many more times are we going to be told that it is our ‘last chance’ to avert climate Armageddon, before we work out that actually, no, we are not going to be wiped out like the dinosaurs?
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