Doomsday, again?

Yesterday, the IPCC released its "[s]ummary for Policymakers of the first volume of “Climate Change 2007”, also known as the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)". Once again, doomsday is at hand, and once again, its because of actions of man.

The media will cover this well. Already, as a response to the (politically polluted) summary of the IPCC-report, big headlines in many newspapers have stated that man is destroying the climate of Earth with his fossil-burning activities. People get scared, understandably, and demand action from politicians. Politicians respond with increased State-control, more regulations and higher taxes. They grasp every opportunity they get to do that, and having the public on-board is certainly not making it harder.

Thankfully, there is a weak sound of logic and reason in the debate, although not as readily heard as the doomsday-stories. In that respect I must give a great applause for the work of the Cato institute. Two articles have already appeared on its website, New Climate for Global Energy Policy, and Live with Climate Change. They are a must read for the calm-headed, and I will do my best to spread them to those I think still have the ability to think sceptically about the coming of Doomsday.

Not to say that I am fully convinced that forecasting the weather for the next 100 years is anywhere near of being called a robust science, personally leaning towards attitudes like these, but any protest against the political correctness of the public climate change debate is better than none.