Irish Times: More than two decades have passed since Margaret Thatcher, as British prime minister, delivered a remarkable speech to the second World Climate Conference, in Geneva, warning that global warming was a greater threat to the world than tyrants and their tanks.
Speaking in November 1990, long in advance of the first Earth Summit, she said: Our ability to come together to stop or limit damage to the worlds environment will be perhaps the greatest test of how far we can act as a world community...