[thucydides]

This is the old familiar Litany of the doom - and - gloom environmentalist left, every point of which has been demolished in Lomborg's "The Sceptical Environmentalist" (as well as many times before).

[gundog]

This is the old familiar Litany of the doom - and - gloom environmentalist left.

This is all acedemic anyway, as the world was plunged into nuclear winter when Saddam set Kuwait's oil wells ablaze. Or so said Carl Sagan upon hearing that Saddam would do so.

Science with a political agenda is no longer science.