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139: The myth of the climate ‘apocalypse’

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Climate-change alarmism, Kate Clanchy and the new book-burners, and Geronimo the alpaca -- Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss.

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Hello and welcome to the spiked podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week as ever we have Spiked deputy editor Tom Slater

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Hello and spiked columnist Ella Whelan hi coming Deputy Editor Tom Slater. Hello.

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And Spiked columnist Ella Wheeling.

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Hi.

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Coming up on the show, Climate Change, the Kate Clanchi scandal, and Geronimo the Alpaca. So this week the IPCC published its latest blockbuster report on the state

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of the climate. The UN Secretary General said that this was code red for humanity.

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Tom, what have you made of the kind of discussion coming out of it this week?

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It's been completely apocalyptic and I think that's the thing that always happens whenever any kind of big climate change report lands from the IPCC from anywhere else

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They can't help but turn it into a kind of biblical narrative about you know fallen man having these plagues visited upon it because of its own

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tubrous. I sound like I'm exaggerating but you look at those front pages this is exactly the way

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