Over the next 12-24 months, the project's researchers hope to build up a comprehensive profile of the various "climate-proof" traits and in which crops they are found.

BBC: 'Climate-proof' crop hunt begins

The positive side of the Tearfund report is that simple measures to "climate-proof" water problems, both drought and flood, have proven to be very effective in some areas.

BBC: Man with dead camel in desert. Image: Jim Loring/Tearfund

Which is something of a body blow to those telling us that we must cease economic growth if calamity is to be averted: the very assumptions built into the whole proof that climate change is something we should worry about say exactly the opposite.

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The exquisite proof of what every scientist in the climate biz has tried to warn us about, is that there really is no proof that it is not happening, just has been described.

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From the private sector, Steve Corneli, senior vice president for sustainability, strategy and policy for NRG Energy, attempted to blend free-market principles with an unquestioning belief in claims by climate-change advocates that have yet to be backed up with conclusive proof.

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But look no further than recent headlines for real world proof that government economists may be low-balling the costs of climate change.

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