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Turning Off Fears of Global Warming Jay Ambrose
All over the planet recently, people turned off electric lights to illustrate alarm about human-caused global warming, and the symbolism, it seems to me, is dead-on right about the possible consequences not of warming itself, but of hype about warming. Progress could become regress, and figuratively speaking, the world could go dark. The fear mongering knows no surcease. Every possible evil is blamed on climate change, from water shortages to flooding to the disappearance of certain frogs.
Supposedly, there's a scientific consensus of coming catastrophe of almost unspeakable horror, and millions have been swayed to this point of view, as the ``Earth Hour" light-dimming showed. The politicians are at this moment devising policies meant to be preventive but that could be perilous or pointless or both. You begin to edge toward balance in a survey in which more than 500 climate scientists were asked if we knew enough to formulate such policies. A majority said we did not. A think-tank fellow reaffirms in an op-ed piece that the United Nations employed clearly faulty methods in making dire projections about the warming to come and that there's no sound basis for insisting that today's warming is the highest ever known in Earth's history.
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