Posted on 04/17/2006 1:26:34 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Simon Cox reports on how scientists are becoming worried by the quality of research used to back up the most extreme climate predictions.
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America - all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the risks of climate change being oversold to win the battle for influence?
I have to remember that one.. your funny.
I trust you picked up on the sarcasm in my post. He would be very happy in the company of "depopulators," although his basic writings were so pessimistic that he had more or less assumed population control would be forced on the human race by the "four horsemen." Paul Ehrlich was one of the original doomsayers, and has beeen systematically discredited by events for thirty years straight. Yet he still goes on...rather amazing longevity, really, for such a loser.
Like a rock going down hill, I guess!!
For a fiction treatment of fat politics, "Thinner Than Thou" by Kit Reed:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076531195X/ref=pd_lpo_k2a_1_txt/102-8809825-5585742?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Thanks for the recommendation. :)
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