The new wave of climate claptrap

YOU can sum up the world in just one word today: hot. Powerful heatwaves have struck every continent over the past year. At least 10 countries have recorded daily temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius in more than one place. Wildfires are scorching unusually large areas of the globe and coral reefs have been hit by the fourth global bleaching event on record.

Luckily, there is no need to hurry up and tackle the climate change fuelling these extremes – only alarmist climate ideologues think otherwise. So goes the latest climate claptrap, the misleading, misinformed or just plain baffling utterances that continue to gush forth in the face of an increasingly evident problem.

More than 18 months have passed since this column last looked at climate twaddle, and while it is hard to say if the problem is shrinking or growing, it definitely continues to surprise.