You shall believe in climate change!

In 2006, the leftist Insitute for Public Policy Research published a report on "climate change", which had this recommendation:

"Much of the noise in the climate change discourse comes from argument and counter-argument, and it is our recommendation that, at least for popular communications, interested agencies now need to treat the argument as having been won, This means simply behaving as if climate change exists and is real, and that individual actions are effective. This must be done by stepping away from the 'advocates debate' described earlier, rather than by stating and re-stating these things as fact.

The ‘facts’ need to be treated as being so taken-for-granted that they need not be spoken. The certainty of the Government’s new climate-change slogan – ‘Together this generation will tackle climate change’ (Defra 2006) – gives an example of this approach. It constructs, rather than claims, its own factuality."

The report is downloadable from here.