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"Global Warming as Mass Neurosis"
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it's time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.
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The Arctic ice cap may be thinning, but the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been expanding for years. At least as of February, last winter was the Northern Hemisphere's coldest in decades. In May, German climate modelers reported in the journal Nature that global warming is due for a decade-long vacation. But be not not-afraid, added the modelers: The inexorable march to apocalypse resumes in 2020.
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A light carbon footprint has become the 21st-century equivalent of sexual abstinence.
"Global Warming as Mass Neurosis," by Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2008
More
- EPA's Climate Change Site
- "Don't fight, adapt. We should give up futile attempts to combat climate change." Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, December 12, 2007
- Global Warming: Frequently Asked Questions - from NOAA
- GlobalWarming.org - from the Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Global warming - from Wikipedia
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