Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict

While we would agree with most of Stern's analysis of the reality of climate change and its dire effects, we believe his market-oriented prescriptions for how to combat climate change are doomed to failure. See Green capitalism: The god that failed, by Richard Smith. --Website editors

Extreme weather events in the UK and overseas are part of a growing pattern that it would be very unwise for us, or our leaders, to ignore, writes the author of the influential 2006 report on the economics of climate change

The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Many commentators have suggested that we are suffering from unprecedented extreme weather. There are powerful grounds for arguing that this is part of a trend.