Truth is the first victim of climate hysteria; The mainstream global warming debate has become an insult to the public, and to science

The climate change "emergency" is fake news. Many will roll their eyes in exasperation at the conspiratorial bombastry of yet another "denier". But for years I have been a plastic recycling, polar bear cooing middle-grounder. In fact, Aristotle would probably turn in his grave at the logical fallaciousness of my long-held presumption that the truth must lie somewhere between those two mutually loathing opposites - Scepticism and Armageddon.

But as the doom-mongering acquires the rubber-sta...