Have we hit those 'limits to growth'? | The Japan Times Online

[BILL McKIBBEN] In the Arctic, for instance, massive melt continues apace. And across the planet, a warmer atmosphere is harboring more moisture, so deluge and flood have become constant companions: The trauma along the Indus River in Pakistan this August is only the largest example of many.

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In my admittedly untutored reading, it looks as if, by the Society's own account, only about a third of the science is settled.

It seems a small proportion on which to erect the next half-century of policy, nearly £1 trillion of costs and the claim that the end of the world is nigh. In this country and the whole of the West, a strange thing has happened. A fascinating scientific theory about a controversial subject has been falsely magicked by its supporters into a hard fact. I know this Government dislikes spending money on logos, but the next time "The Department of Energy and Climate Change" orders new stationery, it should delete those last three contentious words which Gordon Brown added to the masthead.