This was an interesting article, which doesnt deny climate change, but definitely questions the more hysterical claims about it. It was easy to identify with this particular paragraph. Another thing that gave me pause was that I went back and looked at the history of past predictions of ecological apocalypse from my youth – population explosion, oil exhaustion, elephant extinction, rainforest loss, acid rain, the ozone layer, desertification, nuclear winter, the running out of resources, pandemics, falling sperm counts, cancerous pesticide pollution and so forth. There was a consistent pattern of exaggeration, followed by damp squibs: in not a single case was the problem as bad as had been widely predicted by leading scientists. That does not make every new prediction of apocalypse necessarily wrong, of course, but it should encourage scepticism. I am 64, and I have been hearing, The sky is falling! throughout my lifetime. If I turn on the TV, I will no doubt learn that it still is. No matter how cynical you get, you cant keep up.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:07:04 +0000
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