I urge those concerned with counter arguments to the current perversive hyperbole on climate issues to read the upcoming Civil Society Report on Climate Change. It presents a formidable challenge to the current debate on this contentious issue. Combining the expertise of over 40 Civil society think tanks, institutions and research activists the report addresses major flaws not only in the purported scale of the threat but the current solutions to obviate a threat should the climate change dramatically.
Wrestling the debate from alarmists, expedient politicians and unscrupulous organisations the report presents a serious and reasoned challenge to the proposed methods and claims of all three. Moving through several chapters the report answers the full extent of questions posed by those who seek to cloud current debate with hyperbole and hysteria. De-constructive analyses undermines the inflated predications of pandemics, deforestation, agricultural collapse and apocalyptic natural disasters whilst checking the extensive powers government and international organisations demand as a result.
Moving the debate away from ineffective prevention and binding, inflexible international targets real alternatives are proposed to help those who would be most effected by climate change. Innovative reasoning leads the report to champion the development of free commercial institutions whilst at the same time ending costly and counterproductive aid. The report covers the breadth of current debate providing alternative systemic evidence and, where prudent action is required, provides market based solutions that benefit all concerned.
The report concludes that global carbon reduction targets in treaties such as Kyoto will have a miniscule delaying effect at best. Subsequently serious questions are raised as to the validity of such treaties, the science behind them and the economic cost of their implementation. Totalling somewhere between $100 billion and $1 trillion a year Kyoto alone represents a crippling world wide economic impact. The evidence presented in the report paints this potential loss in terms of the constructive use this money could have on developing new technologies, focusing resources and combating the effects of any potential climactic shifts, especially in those areas that would need it most.
The report indicates that advocating the establishment of the rule of law, private property and free markets in developing nations should be the real focus of international attention. With these in place the infrastructure, technology and wealth needed to negate the possible effects of rapid climate change will exist and these nations need not suffer as environmentalists, the UN and its affiliate IPCC and UNFCC organisations suggest.
The influential American journalist H.L Mencken once wrote that “The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it”. By ignoring shrill apocalyptic cries the Civil Society Report on Climate Change acknowledges this sentiment, presents facts instead of perpetuating myths and provides workable solutions to climactic effects both real and imagined.
