Chris Morrison's Implausible is the book that finally puts the climate crisis narrative under a cold, unforgiving light and shows how little of it survives contact with evidence. As Environment Editor of the Daily Sceptic, Morrison has spent years documenting the gap between catastrophic claims and observed reality. This volume collects and expands that work into a single, bracing argument: scientists, activist politicians, and journalists invented a crisis by weaponising implausible computer pathways, asserting a fake consensus, and using the resulting fear to advance collectivist Net Zero policies that would hobble energy systems and living standards.
The title is apt, but "Incredible" might have been sharper. The word captures both senses that matter here: the claims are literally incredible, hard to credit once examined, and the scale of the institutional manufacture is itself extraordinary. Morrison's central exhibit is the IPCC's own admission, reported in 2026, that the high-emissions RCP8.5 pathway long treated as business-as-usual is "implausible." For more than a decade that pathway supplied the fuel for headlines about vanishing polar ice, metres of sea-level rise, mass extinction, and even less tasty beer. When the modelling assumptions were formally walked back, the edifice of media and political alarm built on them stood exposed as junk. The book shows how routinely the worst-case scenario was promoted as the central case whenever grants, subsidies, or political signalling required it.
Morrison is equally direct on hydrocarbons. They remain the only dense, reliable energy source capable of powering modern grids and industrial societies at acceptable cost and security. Wind and solar are intermittent add-ons whose system costs have driven electricity prices upward and accelerated deindustrialisation in places such as the UK and Germany. Battery storage is measured in minutes at grid scale; hydrogen is expensive and hazardous; nuclear provides useful baseload but cannot meet sudden demand spikes. The book notes the civilising record of hydrocarbons: ending endemic hunger in developing regions, lengthening lives, and enabling mobility that earlier generations could not imagine, and asks why that record is treated as a moral failing rather than an achievement. Geological context reinforces the point: atmospheric CO₂ has been far higher for most of the last 600 million years, plants have greened under recent modest increases, and the chaotic, non-linear climate system does not yield the simple human thermostat activists claim.
The institutional chapters are particularly sharp. Morrison examines how the UK Met Office continued to lean on the now-implausible pathway in its own projections, and how the BBC amplified the resulting scare stories. The pattern is familiar: selective use of models, suppression or marginalisation of contrary observational data, and a consensus claim that collapses under scrutiny. As the long-time sceptic Ian Plimer has observed, there is no single paper that conclusively proves the dominant anthropogenic-warming narrative; the atmosphere and its interactions with land and oceans are too complex for that. Models have a forty-year record of over-prediction. Observations, stable or recovering Arctic ice in recent periods, thriving coral, declining weather-related deaths, tell a different story.
Toby Young's foreword frames the larger purpose correctly: the climate agenda functions as a power grab by the "lanyard classes," restricting choices over cars, diet, heating, and travel while the public remains attached to ordinary freedoms. Morrison's prose is clear, often wry, and consistently evidence-led rather than conspiratorial. He does not deny warming or the greenhouse effect; he denies that the data justify the apocalyptic policy response. The result is a book that will anger readers who have accepted the media consensus and entertain those who have not. It is already climbing bestseller lists, which suggests the appetite for this accounting is larger than the institutions that shaped the narrative have allowed themselves to believe.
Implausible is the rare climate book that treats the reader as an adult capable of weighing evidence against repeated forecasts that failed. A title of "Incredible" would have underscored the same verdict: the crisis was manufactured, the models were not credible, and the political project built on them is increasingly hard to defend on its own terms. For anyone who wants the record rather than the media BS, this is essential reading.
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