Politicizing Science - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

My point is simply that there are plenty of ways for Californians to prevent their state from becoming an empty desert, and that I’m skeptical of an expert’s warning that the state will become a wasteland in 2090 unless we all quickly adopt his carbon-cutting strategies. It reminds me of the past mistaken prophecies of doom from the Club of Rome and other supposed experts who failed to anticipate the adaptability of humans.