The education of Tim Worstall continues: I think he's now gone a couple of days without trying to convince us that we "want" a massive new CO2-induced-bad-weather-preventing tax

Climate change will mean new and larger tropical forests – Telegraph Blogs

The thing that worries me most about the whole global warming thing is that I'm deeply unsure that we're going to get an even-handed accounting of this the most important question in the whole subject. Unlike James Delingpole (and yes I have now finished his excellent book and note that I appear on page 296 as one of the good guys) I don't think the whole thing is a scam. I do think that the economy with the truth comes at this point, where we're trying to work out how large the effects are going to be. I seriously suspect that positive feedbacks are talked up while negative ones are downplayed leading to the overall effect being exaggerated.

And of course what we're told we have to do about it, closing down industrial civilisation, is simply crazed lunacy. Better to lose all the forests than have to return to rural peasantry for all.