Aug 24 2009
Global Warming, just the latest environmental hysteria
The Global Warming advocates really need to take a good hard look at the language they use in an attempt to convince people that their position is correct. Specifically, they should avoid alarmist or sensationalist headlines.
I’m really tempted to start a page dedicated to overblown headlines and Global Warming claims.
The latest nominees:
Climate Change Could Swamp Venice’s flood defence. Venice flooding 30 to 250 times a year, based on “conservative estimates” on ocean levels rising.
US Crops Could Wilt in Heat. Crop yields could drop by up to 82% due to global warming. (A yield equal to 18% of current production). Oh yes, that sounds like a reasonable prediction.
What’s next? The sky is falling? (Although the ozone hole hysteria that you never hear about anymore probably came close to this one.)
A constant barrage of doomsday predictions is not persuasive, it makes you look hysterical and possibly mentally unstable. Especially when previous doomsday scenarios fail to occur. Like Ted Danson saying the oceans had 10 years left. (I believe that was said 20 years ago at this point.) Or previous warnings of global cooling that never happened. Or the aforementioned ozone hole. The hysteria on that one disappeared immediately after CFC’s were banned, despite the fact the hole apparently hasn’t changed.
Getting “cap-and-trade” and other regulations won’t stop the hysteria. They’ll just move to the next environmental “crisis”.
