Darwall’s The Age of Global Warming

By William Walter Kay

Cambridge-trained economist and historian Rupert Darwall has done research and writing for the Conservative Research Department and for businesses and think-tanks in Britain and the USA. The 442-page The Age of Global Warming: A History (2013) draws on Darwall’s interviews with dozens of the saga’s heroes and villains including Global Warming masterminds like Sir Crispin Tickell, Sir John Houghton et al.

One might presume commercial publishing houses scrambled after this manuscript. Not so. This being a climate-sceptical manuscript, it was rejected by the majors and finally accepted by Quartet Books – a firm not hitherto associated with pro-business American think-tanks or the British Conservative Party.

Part One of this condensation distills Darwall’s history of Global Warming’s political history. Others have essayed this chronology, and all have over-emphases and omissions. Nevertheless, it does the sceptic’s brain good to periodically jog down a timeline of the great Climate Change caper.

Part Two extracts Darwall’s commentary on: a) the failure of Global Warming as a scientific hypothesis; b) the crimes perpetrated to rescue this hypothesis; and c) the carnage wrought by Global Warming upon Western science….To Read More….