Sunday, March 25, 2007

Where The Goracle is Wrong

Bjorn Lomborg has a lengthy piece in the New York Post today which actually adds some common sense to the issue of global warming without the theatrics and hysterics normally associated with the buffoonish Al Gore.
Yes, the media often carry far more dire descriptions of warming's consequences. Gore, for example: "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced." A fine phrase for such talk is "climate porn": This kind of language makes any sensible policy dialogue about our global choices impossible.
Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: As it turns out, Lord Nazh reminds me the term climate porn is already in vogue.

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