Lord Lawson, who doesn't believe that CO2 will make the world come to an end, allegedly sounds like an old man who fears the world is about to come to an end

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A clever chap Lawson, whose career bombed when he tried to let sterling shadow the German mark in the late 80s without telling Margaret Thatcher. He's since come out as a noisy climate sceptic. Today's gloomy prognosis made him sound like an old man who fears the world is about to come to an end (old folk sometimes talk that way when they grasp that their own time in it is ending).