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Why climate change is good for the world

Don't panic! The scientific consensus is that warmer temperatures do more good than harm

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

Climate change has done more good than harm so far and is likely to continue doing so for most of this century. This is not some barmy, right-wing fantasy; it is the consensus of expert opinion. Yet almost nobody seems to know this. Whenever I make the point in public, I am told by those who are paid to insult anybody who departs from climate alarm that I have got it embarrassingly wrong, don’t know what I am talking about, must be referring to Britain only, rather than the world as a whole, and so forth.

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