Opinion,
Media hype The material on this site has been assembled for three reasons:
1. To counter the junk science and mass media hype (scaremongering is good for business) that feeds the hysteria.
2. Because I was asked to assemble it.
3. So that YOU won't be as great a menace to the world's poor as those pursuing environmentalism's morally bankrupt agenda.
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 09:41AM Take out the "suddenly" for this first paragraph (where has the writer been?) and you have a fine take on global warming alarmism with some important insights from an Asian perspective in this fine article 'Too much Hot Air' from the India Times. Well worth reading.
Global warming is agitating our minds, particularly after the report of the Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Four issues are under debate. Is the earth warming in an unprecedented manner, hitherto never seen in history? Are industrialisation and higher lifestyles responsible for this warming? Which countries and regions are the highest emitters of global greenhouse gases? And, can massive technological breakthroughs curtail future emissions to acceptable levels?
Instead of having a dispassionate debate, global warming has suddenly taken on an alarmist hue. Dissenting views are looked upon with suspicion or disdain. Doomsday ayatollahs are nothing new to human history.
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