The greenwashed heirs to Lysenko

The debt to Stalinism of climate change dogma is unmistakeable

Trofim Lysenko speaking before Stalin at the Kremlin, 1935

My attention was caught on Monday by the final sentence in a reader’s letter to The Times. Chris Hamnett wrote: 

It is depressing that, like Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, Sir Keir Starmer has chosen ideology over scientific and physical reality. Asked by Andrew Marr to comment on Rosie Duffiel…