Apocalyptic warnings are counter-productive

Guido pokes fun at warnings of imminent disaster here. Indeed, we have not seen a Day After Tomorrow-style sudden swing into a global inferno (or like that in The Day the Earth Caught Fire referred to earlier in these pages). Kate Hendry, the palaeoclimotologist who appeared in the slot on this week's Film Programme dealing with "jobs the film-makers get wrong", pointed out that previous climate changes took place over hundreds of years. However, I have a nasty feeling that at some time in the last decade we did flick over into runaway global warming and that even if we did reverse production of greenhouse gases tomorrow there will be no measurable effect within our lifetimes. This, of course, will only fuel climate change deniers claims of conspiracy.