Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists

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..the course followed by virtually every environmental scare story.

Year 1: the scientist finds some potential threat.
Year 2: the journalists amplify and exaggerate it.
Year 3: the environmentalists join the bandwagon.
Year 4: the bureaucrats move in; an international conference
is demanded; regulations and targets proliferate.
Year 5: a scapegoat, usually America (global warming), is sought out and denounced.
Year 6: doubts surface among scientists.
Year 7: the quiet climb down: the official consensus estimate of the problem shrinks. The scare disappears not with a bang but with a whimper.