Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong: the world won’t end in 2030

So apparently the world is going to end in a few years’ time. Yawn. It’s fair to say that this is a message that has been heard on a regular basis for as long as anyone can remember – traditionally from long-haired gentlemen adorned with sandwich boards, but in recent years more often from (sometimes equally hirsute) climate scientists, environmentalists and green-minded politicians.

This week’s message of doom comes from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Congresswoman who is the latest big thing in US Democrat political circles. Ocasio-Cortez is on the green warpath and would like us all to know that ‘the world is gonna end’ in 2030 if we don’t ‘address climate change’. Stop sniggering at the back, this is serious.

Ocasio-Cortez’s timing, it has to be said, is not of the best. This week, the sceptically minded have been having a bit of fun at the expense of the US defence establishment, who worked themselves into a bit of a Twitter tizzy about a new Pentagon report that claimed that US military bases were at risk from changing weather patterns.