There’s a recognisable comic character emerging in the climate sceptic movement. He’s an elderly man, distinguished in his time, who goes round saying, ‘I think it’s very important to look at this issue rationally.’ As soon as someone expresses a very rational point of view that isn't his own, he splutters, ‘I have seldom heard such a farrago of wishful thinking and muddle’.
Pompous, irascible and reactionary, he’s the modern Colonel Blimp.
pic. Roger Livesey as Colonel Blimp
Country diary: Holding our breath as we watch the bearded tits | Jamey
Douglas
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*Boyton and Hollesley Marshes, Suffolk:* Today these wide open skies give
us so much – not least a spoonbill – but there are also great rewards
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