I saw an excellent movie this week, "Not Evil Just Wrong" (1 hr 20 min.). The theme was the harm done to ordinary people by the actions of extreme environmentalists. The ares covered were DDT and global warming. Because of Rachel Carsons’s book, "Silent Spring," DDT was banned for years, even though it was found to be relatively harmless. Banning DDT was very harmful because millions have died of malaria that would have been saved by DDT, which is a very effective mosquito killer.

Global warming alarmists want to close down electrical generating plants, thereby destroying jobs. The effect on one family was shown in the movie. Convincing evidence that nature, not human activity, causes global warming was shown in the movie.

The movie supported the belief that extreme environmentalists like everything about the environment except human beings. I suggest searching "Not Evil Just Wrong" on your computer.

William E. Morris

Wilmington

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Yes, emissions are coming down -- that is a natural function of technological development and efficiency driven both by profit motive (human society's most powerful incentive) and a wealthier society's desire for a nice (aesthetically pleasing and "clean") environment. It has absolutely nothing to do with gorebull warming, the misguided attempts to address which will be really bad for society and the environment.

If only The Crone would stop viewing everything through its toxic misanthropy it would realize the path to a cleaner, better world for all lies in development and wealth generation, two things most damaged by absurd AGW fear-driven "actions".

No process known to atmospheric physics would allow a specific local phenomenon like the stratwarm to propagate all the way from the stratosphere above the North Pole to the ionosphere above the equator...Some speculate that this trend is a product of climate change

Global population growth has slowed significantly, but it hasn't stopped. By 2050 there may be about 35 per cent more people on Earth than there are today. We are already seeing increasing shortages of food, water and other resources and growing numbers of hungry people.... Nowadays it is understood that the key population-related issue is the destructive pressure human activity is exerting on our life-support systems, posing a growing threat to the sustainability of civilisation... Yet many people still assume that humanity will easily manage to support more than 9 billion people in 2050 and beyond.   Such confidence ignores some grim possibilities.

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines -- hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death...

... nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation.

If you want to get a message across to the public, don't obsess about facts.  Just look at Al Gore's climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Olson says. The film contained more than a few factual errors, but it also had a profound influence on the world's attitude to climate change.  Perhaps compromising on accuracy is a necessary evil...is this really the right way for scientists to go? With climate change, perhaps the end justifies the means... given Gore's success and the prevalence of scientific illiteracy, it remains an interesting path to consider.

O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.