Monday, March 19, 2007

Environmental Wacko: Billions Will Die

Nothing like ratcheting up the hysteria a few notches.
In his book The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery puts aside his essential optimism for long enough to write: "If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilisation due to climate change becomes inevitable."
Good grief. Now all you teachers out there, make sure you get the kiddies to read this so we can scare the daylights out of them.

Not everyone is convinced by the propaganda.
Some don't buy any of this "climate porn", as a UK think tank recently described such talk. Al Gore's movie is "bullshit from beginning to end", according to Ray Evans, a former Western Mining executive and author of the Lavoisier Group's Nine Facts About Climate Change (2006). For Evans and many others, man-made climate change panic is a bugaboo, perhaps even a hoax.
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