Ever since the infamous Chicken Little freaked out about the imminent descent of the sky, alarmed people everywhere have taken a certain morbid delight in anticipating the next great catastrophe to befall the Earth. The latest entry in the pantheon of fear–one with a surprising amount of staying power–is global warming.
Now, before all you AGW (anthropogenic [man-made] global warming) acolytes start besieging me, let me be clear that this little treatise is not about whether or not warming is occurring.
No, what we are dealing with here is the neurotic reaction of the populace to the possibility of AGW–and in my view, that reaction is far more dangerous and destructive than a 100-year trend that adds a degree on average to the global temperature.
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