Environmental crisis: Fuels growth of government
The IPCC's climate-change fearmongering is only the latest excuse to expand the public sector. My article titled " Environmental 'crisis' and government power ", was published in the Wall Street Journal Asia , on 24 March 2010. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted for the first time last month that it is facing a crisis of confidence. But the IPCC's failings go far beyond the recent spate of errors identified in its reports. The problem began with the global political climate that led to the formation of the IPCC two decades ago. Contrary to popular perception, the IPCC is not a scientific organization. It does no research of its own. Composed of scientists nominated by different governments, its key function is to collate evidence of human-induced climate change, not just changes in climate. It is hardly surprising that with such an inherently biased objective the scientists lost their objectivity. Many of them went on a...