Batten down the hatches – Climate fear-mongering to get worse

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Today’s Commonwealth leaders are generally beyond hope when it comes to developing sensible climate policy, except, that is, in a few areas, one being the need for improved adaptation to climate change. On this topic the final communiqué of the event called for “increased financial flows for adaptation, and their improved effectiveness.” Yet, even this uncommonly sensible conclusion didn’t meet with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s approval. “I am not for adaptation, to adapt like the beaver adapts to winter in Australia.” exclaimed Museveni. “I think climate changes can be reversed.”

Of course, reversing ‘climate changes’ makes about as much sense as beavers having to adapt to survive Australia’s mild winters (if, that is, beavers were actually found in Australia, which they aren’t – they are indigenous to North America and Europe only). Humanity has no chance of ‘stopping climate change’ and, like the ‘Australian beaver’, ‘reversing climate changes’ falls completely into the realm of science fiction.
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Scares of hypothetical “tipping points”, run-away sea level rise, massively increased storms, floods, pestilence and drought are simply that, unjustified and unjustifiable scares. Of course, that won’t stop the UN from issuing even more sensationalist claims of impending disaster in Bali next week. But then, there’s nothing to stop sensible people from completely ignoring them either.