It may surprise you, since I embraced the IPCC report on Global Warming, but I think the most recent report that our planet faces a catastrophe is garbage. It is irresponsible panic-mongering. It is difficult enough to predict whether the planet is going to warm or not over the next century. But predicting all kinds of ecological disasters — in the same hysterical manner with which Paul Ehrlich did thirty years ago — is dumb as hell.

Apart from the difficulty in predicting the secondary effects when the primary effect is not understood, they ignore that human beings adapt. Global warming is not going to happen so fast that we can’t account for it. What is with the anti-humanist agenda of the greens that they think of human beings as helpless creatures who are incapable of innovation, improvement and adaptation? That we can never meet the challenges we face? We have brought down air pollution, water pollution and acid rain significantly in the past century — problem once thought insoluble. Overpopulation turned out to be a bunch of crap, just as the skeptics said. So now we’re supposed to believe the hype?