A notable excerpt:
Slow warming doesn’t make for memorable images on television or in people’s minds, so activists, journalists and scientists have looked to hurricanes, wild fires and starving polar bears instead. They have used these images to start an “availability cascade,” a term coined by Timur Kuran, a professor of economics and law at the University of Southern California, and Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
The availability cascade is a self-perpetuating process: the more attention a danger gets, the more worried people become, leading to more news coverage and more fear. Once the images of Sept. 11 made terrorism seem a major threat, the press and the police lavished attention on potential new attacks and supposed plots. After Three Mile Island and “The China Syndrome,” minor malfunctions at nuclear power plants suddenly became newsworthy.
The only people who really don't believe in Global Warming are those who have no scientific reasoning skills. The problem, rather, is with the fear-mongering Al Gore technique. Many politicians, as a result, will use the Global Warming scare to gain more power and regulate more aspects of our life.
What's really unfortunate through this whole deal is how much good hasn't been done because of Government intervention. Look at ethanol. It's expensive, it's not profitable, and it's making food prices rise. Want to see a real reversal of a climate degradation? Let the market decide.
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adam
