BP Aftermath Fuels Skepticism Over Global Warming Impact

"Global warming is one prediction of doom after another," Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells Newsmax. "You know, we're all going to get malaria, or there will be hurricanes and tornadoes everywhere, or sea levels will rise drastically in a short period of time. It's just one claim of doom right around the corner after another."

The largest oil spill in U.S. history hasn't brought environmental Armageddon. So perhaps fears about global warming have been overblown as well, the thinking goes.

Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst specializing in energy and the environment at The Heritage Foundation, says dire gloom-and-doom predictions rarely pan out.