The IPCC report takes us from alarmism to adaptation | Simon Jenkins

The landmark climate change study should silence the doubters, and steers us towards calm if urgent debate on how we act

At last there are signs of a change of climate over climate change. Seven years of alarmism have yielded endless conferences and gargantuan sums of public expenditure, with no serious impact on carbon emissions. In a bitter irony, the state that has been most hostile to the concept, America, has been the leader in emissions reduction, largely through a free market shift from...