Tag Archives: the carbon dioxide shuck

“Almost every global environmental scare of the past half century proved exaggerated including the population ‘bomb,’ pesticides, acid rain, the ozone hole, falling sperm counts, genetically engineered crops and killer bees. In every case, institutional scientists gained a lot of funding from the scare and then quietly converged on the view that the problem was much more moderate than the extreme voices had argued. Global warming is no different.”

—Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and member of the British House of Lords.

Meanwhile, Wormtongue, the shuck’s most prominent proponent, is siccing his cronies on “deniers.”

UPDATE:  And the Dictator’s Club’s favored alarmists are getting shriller than ever.