Owen Jennings: Catastrophic Gullibility

Climate change is big business in New Zealand. Government and local authorities now have a small army of people employed in the climate change industry paid by our taxes and rates. An even bigger army work as consultants where the pay is better. It’s an industry with massive ‘oil tanker' impetus.

Most of their work is predicated on the claim that things are getting worse. Higher temperatures are driving the climate into chaos. Weather events have already become more extreme and will get a heap worse.

But is this assumption true? Do the facts support the chaos, ‘everything-is-getting-worse' claim?