This morning (July 9th) I was watching BBC World just after 6:00 a.m., in the Ibis Hotel in Strasbourg, to be greeted by the cheerful news that the world is facing its sixth mass extinction event (the fifth, 60 million years ago, saw the extinction of the dinosaurs), and that this was “caused by climate change and loss of habitat”. A glib observation offered without justification, and straight out of the BBC’s standard alarmist phrase-book. I can’t find a link to this morning’s broadcast, but here’s the flavour.
So I went to Google and pulled off a graph of temperature over the last 10,000 years. The graph above is typical, based on Greenland ice cores, and is one of many. The basic pattern is generally accepted in the scientific community. The ten thousand year period is significant because it covers most of the current Interglacial period –…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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