Yet our climate conversation has been dominated by end-of-the-world thinking that bears no relation to the measured language of the IPCC.
While panic is a great way to raise awareness and win votes, it is a terrible starting point for making smart policies.
The best known scare story is Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, which was all the rage seven years ago.
Remember where he showed us how a sea-level rise of almost seven metres would inundate Holland, Bangladesh and Florida? Yes, it was terrifying. Yes, it had a huge impact. No, it had no basis in reality.
HT: Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change Is Real, But We Have Time | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) and Bjørn Lomborg on realism in the latest IPCC climate report. – Project Syndicate.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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