What climate change?

Ah, how nice to know that it’s all a storm in a teacup. And this from a Qualified Expert.

> Chrysler’s chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on “quasi-hysterical Europeans” and their “Chicken Little” attitudes to global warming.

And according to Mr Jolissaint, “global warming [is] a far-off risk whose magnitude [is] uncertain”.

Now I’ve read State of Fear, and I have Bjorn Lomborg’s “The Skeptical Environmentalist” on my bookshelf, but somehow I suspect the motives behind the man who is at or near the top of one of the world’s biggest vehicle makers. As my old mentor, Ken Louw, used often to remind me: “It’s never as bad as people think, and it’s never as good as people think”. Wise words, Smashie.

The BBC rather amusingly points out that, of course, the other makers are probably just as bad but at least slightly more subtle about it.

It’s good, in the circumstances, to see we headless EU chickens at least trying to take some action as regards the environment.