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Henry Mencken, one of the few who successfully followed fellow American Mark Twain on the path of “higher goofyism”, once remarked that puritanism is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”. This gets to the heart of the alarmist section of the global environmental movement who are more interested in punishing growth and prosperity than actually contributing towards adapting to a warmer world.

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Ted Kaufman's Sunday essay on climate change finally drew together incontrovertible information on the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of members of professional scientific societies in the U.S. alone who understand and support the concept of present and future climate change brought on by our overuse of carbon-based energy sources.

The "deniers" of such concepts can only summon up a mere "35,000 scientists disagree" and present zero evidence to support that utterly untenable position.

Britain's Shift In Green Rhetoric Signals End Of Green Consensus

“There is a clear disintegration of the green consensus,” says Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a critic of many climate policies.

As the new year begins, imagine how different Britain’s political landscape might be if it had a chancellor talking about “the fierce urgency of now” needed to tackle the “environmental crisis” of climate change.

Or if that same minister censures the Treasury for being “at best indifferent, and at worst obstructive” on green policies, and says it “simply isn’t good enough” for the UK to lag behind every major European country when it comes to using renewable energy such as wind power.

As incredible as this scenario may sound these words are all from a speech George Osborne, now chancellor, made to London’s Imperial College in November 2009, when he was shadow chancellor.

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