Manmade Global Warming: Researchers identify 26 past scares analogous to the global warming alarm.

Pajamas Media  "Polls show that roughly one person in two is concerned about manmade global warming. Why? Because vivid, alarming forecasts, even those based on weak foundations, are persuasive."....

...."Rachel Carson raised alarm over the insecticide DDT ... There was no good evidence for this assertion, and there still isn’t. The EPA nevertheless banned DDT in 1972, ... The main consequence of the ban is that millions of people have died needlessly from mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria.....

....."We hope that this phenomenon of false environmental alarms will become widely recognized so that in the future we can avoid the very real costs that they impose on the most vulnerable people, and then on all of us."

Forecasting expert Dr. Kesten Green is a researcher at the University of South Australia in Adelaide . Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition.

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