Between the Lines: Lawson Warms to the Global Debate with a Different Take On Events
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NIGEL Lawson, Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor between 1983 and 1989, is something of a polymath. A financial journalist to trade, he has turned out some interesting books since he gave up the red boxes, including The Nigel Lawson Diet Book and what is probably the best insider's view of the Treasury to date. His latest work, published tomorrow, is entitled A Cool Look at Global Warming.
Lawson is also a former energy secretary so we should treat his polite scepticism seriously. He accepts that there has been a warming of the planet during the past quarter century and that some of this is due to a man-made greenhouse effect. He concedes that if we go on pumping into the atmosphere "all other things being equal, the world is likely to get warmer". His departure from the conventional wisdom is three-fold.See the full content of this document
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Between the Lines: Lawson Warms to the Global Debate with a Different Take On Events
First, he is unconvinced that science knows enough to be sure that man-made climate change is the dominant factor in perceived global warming; or indeed that such warming is necessarily going to continue. He quotes data from the Hadley Centre for Climate Pre...
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