Human Events, November 4th, 2002
Exaggerating the Dangers of Global Warming
How many news stories have we read recently about the imminent disappearance of the glaciers of Kilimanjaro? This latest spasm of "envirodoom" stems from Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson's latest paper in Science, in which he predicts the end to the glaciers by 2020 or so, based upon current trends. The culprit? Global warming, of course, or so the doomsayers would have us believe.
It's apparently all a result of global warming caused by man's pernicious economic activity. At least that's what Ohio State said in its press release, ...
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