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Mandy & the IPCC

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

Floods, hurricanes, disaster, disease, drought, rising sea levels: you name it, it’s all there in the latest doom-laden tome from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which comes brightly packaged in a Mandy Rice-Davies-style warning of a ‘code red for humanity’. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Devoid of much in the way of what might be labelled ‘evidence’, the report relies instead on ‘high probabilities’ and ‘likelihoods’, all of which form the somewhat shaky foundations for the hyperbole that follows.

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