Don’t you just hate it when the newspapers write up something based on selective leaks and insider info, and then fail to ptoperly report on the real thing because its been done already? Well, I’m not going to do that to the Stern Review (side note: if you look up Stern report on google, I’m one of the top hits – but only because its real name is S review…). The SR, you’ll recall, was a report commissioned by the UK govt into the economics of climate change.
Now the Grauniad says: Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world’s leaders warned based on All of [Stern's] detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to indicate first of all that if we don’t take global action we are going to see a massive downturn in global economies by David King. Well. Maybe. I suppose we’ll have to see…