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Climate change report rewritten to include more exclamation marks

15 March 2009 | Joe Stella

A global warming conference in Copenhagen has heard that two-year-old worst-case scenarios for the climate are hopelessly out of date.

Read more background from BBC News.


Scientists say that their predictions have been getting more and more dire every year—and the trend is only getting worse.

Two years ago, climatologists believed that climate alarmism would remain steady over time, however it has only become stronger.

New research shows that the climate has changed to make people more concerned about their livelihoods, forcing up warming rhetoric worldwide.

Climatology is a relatively new science based on the idea that truth is defined by accuracy multiplied by the number of times you say it.

Stern looks

British economist Lord Stern, whose inaccurate climate change report was considered alarmist in its day, concedes that he had no idea how hysterical he needed to be. He’s planning a new edition of The Economics of Climate Change where every sentence has been rewritten to include two or three exclamation marks at the end.

He is also seriously considering making up the numbers all over again.

Speaking to BBC News, Lord Stern quipped “resources will be cheaper now than in the future”.

He then predicted the world would run out of food by 1850.

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