Matt Ridley (The Times) nu ook “lukewarmer”
http://www.thegwpf.org/opinion-pros-a-cons/1460-matt-ridley-this-discredited-ipcc-process-must-be-purged.html

Three years ago, not having paid much attention, I thought that IPCC reports were reliable, fair and transparent. No longer. Despite coming from a long line of coal-mining entrepreneurs, I’m not a “denier”: I think carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. I’m not even a sceptic (yet): I think the climate has warmed and will warm further. But I am now a “lukewarmer” who has yet to see any evidence saying that the current warming is, or is likely to be, unprecedented, fast or tending to accelerate.

So I have concluded that global warming will most probably be a fairly minor problem — at least compared with others such as poverty and habitat loss — for nature as well as people. After watching the ecologically and economically destructive policies enacted in its name (biofuels, wind power), I think we run the risk of putting a tourniquet round our collective necks to stop a nosebleed.

Matt Ridley is the author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Fourth Estate)

The Times 31 August 2010

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