In Canberra for Wednesday's anti-carbon dioxide tax rally, I attended Lord Deben's evening lecture. M'Lord is said to have attended the birth of society's latest unfounded edition of climate fear—forecast supposed imminent, irreversible, catastrophic global warming due to carbon dioxide.
Delightfully he praised economic development for reducing birth rates. Astoundingly, he ignored the crucial role of cheap, abundant, reliable, readily-accessible energy. It powers productivity that is the engine of economic development.