[srmorton]

It's funny that you should post this article today because I just mentioned this very topic today in my BIO 110 class. It was the first lecture when I discuss the scientific method and I always caution them to be careful about believing the some of the various claims that are made in the name of science. For example, what qualifications does Leonardo De Caprio have that would enable him to make such pronouncements about the environment?

I also mentioned Rachel Carson as an example in which there were serious unintended consequences from a decision based on emotion and not real scientific evidence. Many thousands of lives lost due to malaria could have been saved if the decision to ban DDT had not been made.

[gridlock]

I teach a Sunday School class, and the kids were giving me the standard Government-School line about Global Warming. I told them that they should be a good deal more skeptical about what their teachers are telling them (present company excluded, of course!)