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IPCC this century’s ‘Chicken Little’

Monday, November 4, 2013 6:35
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MorganMorganMINING industry veteran Hugh Morgan has further inflamed the climate change debate by claiming that the world’s climate scientists will be remembered in a similar vein to the “Chicken Little” theorists who published the apocalyptic tome The Limits to Growth more than 40 years ago.

The long-time climate change sceptic said the intensity of the debate on global warming made it timely to consider the impact of the 1972 book published by the Club of Rome, which sold 12 million copies and was translated into 37 languages.

The Club of Rome – a group of mostly European scientists and academics – used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of commodities, including gold, mercury, silver, tin, zinc, petroleum, copper, lead, oil and natural gas, within 30 years.

The book captured the public’s imagination by warning of the “sudden and uncontrollable collapse” of economic life.

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