Would global warming make hell freeze over?
If so, I am now a believer. The New York Times published an article yesterday critical of Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth.
Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician and political scientist referenced in the article, has written a book
No one should miss Bjørn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist." The author, a Danish statistician and former Greenpeace activist, set out to disprove the views of the late Julian Simon, who claimed that environmental fears were baseless and that the world was actually improving. To Mr. Lomborg's surprise, he found that Simon was mostly right. Mr. Lomborg's text is calm and devastating to established dogma.
Personally, I don't like the scaremongering tactics either. Seems to be used solely for attention and political lucre (and financial profits by those in the EU who are gaming the carbon trade). I think the significant downgrade recently of the threat of rising ocean levels by the UN, while not frequently mentioned, deflates the Chicken Little argument. Should we be good stewards of the Earth and the environment? Sure. But let's be rationale about it.
UPDATE: Cox and Forkum weigh in on the issue.