Hot Topic’s Gareth graciously concedes wager on Arctic sea ice melt after ice cap springs back from last year’s post-1979 low « Poneke’s Weblog

Good news doesn’t sell of course, especially when it runs counter to what amounts to a secular religious belief in catastrophic global warming that is entrenched in the world’s news media.

Personally, I believe we should be doing as much as possible — globally as well as locally — to reduce pollution of the environment, whether from car exhausts, factory chimneys, fertiliser run-offs from farms, and all other sources. But this is so we have a clean environment to live in. If human-induced global warming is more than a computer prediction and if it is a bad thing and if cleaning up the global environment really can reduce it, well, that would be wonderful.

I’m not sure, however, that we should be trashing the global economy and starving large numbers of people by introducing extreme measures designed to counter something that exists to date only in computer models.