Bill Clinton Fears 'Climate Will Crater and We Won't Be Able To Preserve Civilization'

So much for the end of the politics of fear, especially when it comes to the hot-button issues of the day.

Former President Bill Clinton appeared in an interview with Ann Curry on NBC’s Feb. 16 “Today.” Curry asked him if the greatest threat to the United States was the economic crisis and whether it outweighed the threats of terrorism.

“In the short term,” Clinton replied. “In the medium term because I think we’ll come out of the economic crisis, terror and the spread of weapons of mass destruction are. In the long-term, the prospect that the climate will crater and we won’t be able to preserve civilization.”

Glimmer of hope for consensus climate honesty is short-lived

To review: At first sight, Pope’s article appears to be a refreshing call for intellectual honesty from the consensus climate-science camp: “Hey, why don’t we try telling the public the truth, for a change, instead of all this exaggerated alarmism?” After all, as anyone who studies the climate issue with an open mind knows, the Arctic example is only one of hundreds of perfectly natural phenomena that consensus climate science blames on human-caused global warming.

Alas, on further reading, Pope’s article is revealed not as a plea for honesty but yet another consensus scientist’s attempt to keep the public from hearing any views on climate but her own.

Oh, well. I suppose a glimmer of hope for consensus climate honesty is better than none....

Paul Fuhr: Cleveland Weather Examiner: Latest global-warming threats empty, unfounded

While Field claims that recent studies show that scientists have “underestimated the potential severity of global warming over the next 100 years,” these two articles are perfect examples of how studies can be used to manipulate readers and, in turn, policy. Under the guise of reporting on global warming, the media has seized good ideas (conservation of energy, recycling, emission limitations) and turned them into benchmarks. I don’t disagree that these are things we should be do. Of course not. Without question. However, to point the finger at developing countries and claim that their use of coal will trigger an end-of-days effect on the environment is wrong, if not reprehensible.

Cleveland Weather Examiner: Latest global-warming threats empty, unfounded

Paul Fuhr is a writer and a lifelong weather enthusiast who grew up in Milan, Ohio. The unpredictable, dramatic and sometimes bizarre weather that sweeps in over Lake Erie continues to inspire and fascinate him.