Driving into work this morning and listening to the BBC’s Today programme on radio 4, I heard an absolutely stunning quote from Environment Secretary David Miliband. It was so utterly moronic that I couldn’t really believe that a real life actual person would have said it, so I looked it up when I got to work, and it appears that it was a genuine, verbatim, quote (although the BBC don’t reproduce it in their article).

Speaking about climate change (OMG, there’s something funny going on with the weather!), Miliband said:

It’s important not to be alarmist about it but it’s important to be alarmed.

Huh?

Go on, see for yourself! (it appears he said it during an earlier interview on The Today Programme, which I didn’t catch, but, boy, am I going to catch the pod-cast later.)

@15:03:44 under politics (kind of)