Is global warming the new Y2K ?
I think any sensible (perhaps I should have said ‘cynical) person could be forgiven for thinking there is some truth in what you say. Like most people I am willing to accept a natural general trend in global temperature increase at this moment in the Earth’s history. However, I am old enough to recall that there were _no_ warnings of a new Ice Age in the mid 20th Centruy, particularly after the appallingly long, freezing winters of 1947 and 1962. And in the equally long – and ridiculously hot – Summer of 1976 there was no mention of global warming, even though the UK was a straw-coloured land of scorched grass and dying trees. Furthermore, according to the scientist who first reported the ozone layer hole enlarging, the hole is now shrinking rapidly – but you don’t see any reports of this in the media. Indeed the scientist says that no one seems to want him to propagate his new findings. Similarly, the scientists studying melting of artic ice recently said it is not as severe as they o
