Christopher Booker, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that “2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved.” His reasons:
First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. … Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. … Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world.
His third point is particularly noteworthy. A green economy sounds great until it hits Americans’ wallets. It will be interesting, in a twisted way, to see how team Obama navigates the murky waters of enviro activism’s impact on kitchen table economics.
