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Anxiety over global warming is unfounded

August 19, 2007 12:35 am

There you go again, editorial writers ["Warming warning," Aug. 15], demanding we do much more to curb global warming.

The editorial adds national parks to a long list of asserted victims if warming continues. Won't you ever acknowledge that cooling has exacted a much greater toll on human lives than warming?

Besides, whatever we do about warming might well be totally ineffectual, because the Earth has been going through hot-cold cycles for thousands of years.

Yes, I view our planet as being virtually "impervious to anything we teeny-tiny humans could do," as the editorial puts it.

Besides, there are more pressing problems we can do something about, which will yield results more surely and sooner. It's said we now spend more on the global warming problem than on sealing our border with Mexico. Yet illegal alien inflows already are slowing, reducing problems they cause right here, right now.

Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," claims further that the money could be much better spent on curing malaria and malnutrition for the good of all us "teeny-tiny" humans.

In a recent interview about the alarmism over global warming, he said, "The effects of global warming are very often vastly exaggerated and one-sided, and that doesn't lead to good judgments."

Precisely.