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Time running out for Rio 20+

Time is running out, warn climate change lobbyists meeting in Rio. 

Unless the Earth starts to warm up dramatically in the next few hours, it will have failed to do what the climate change lobby warned it was going to do all those years ago.

“This could be a complete disaster” warned one attendee. “Twenty years ago we insisted that unless we cut carbon emissions, the world would be much warmer in 2012. If anything, things seem to have gotten a little cooler”.

With no sign of runaway climate catastrophe, many lobbyists were urging one another to talk instead about sustainable development instead.

Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, millions of folk in China, Africa and India have enjoyed enormous increases in their living standards. Per capita consumption of food and energy have risen and there are about 30 percent more humans on the planet. But still no sign of eco meltdown.

“This is all very inconvenient. I keep on having to re-engineer my hockey stick graphs” warned another. “We get attention when we warn of disaster. The BBC and others lap it up. 

But just you try telling them that the world is getting cleaner, richer and better thanks to free market capitalism.  They're not interested".

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