USAToday.com reports on one Climate Change expert who is frustrated with the fear mongering...

Questions about research slow climate change efforts
By Brian Winter, USA TODAY

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The violent threats are not what bother Michael Mann the most. He's used to them.

Instead, it's the fact that his life's work — the effort to stop global warming — has been under siege since last fall. That's when Mann suddenly found himself in the middle of the so-called "climategate" scandal, in which more than 1,000 e-mails among top climate scientists — including Mann — were obtained illegally by hackers and published on the Internet.

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In a rare extended interview, Mann acknowledges "minor" errors but says he has been bewildered by the criticism — including a deluge of correspondence sent to his Pennsylvania State University office that, he says, occasionally has turned ugly.

"I've developed a thick skin," Mann says. "Frankly, I'm more worried that these people are succeeding in creating doubt in the minds of the public, when there really shouldn't be any."

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"I look at it like this: Let's say that you're in your car, you open up the owner's manual, and you discover a typo on page 225. Does that mean you stop driving the car? Of course not. Those are the kind of errors we're talking about here," Mann says. "Nothing has fundamentally changed."

via usatoday.com

Sorry, pal. Because the sky isn't falling *right now* people are gonna ignore ya. See, people are stupid. They can't see very far into the future--all many folks can see is what ever is right in front of them. It's like that whole "persistence of vision" thing is strangely absent from their brains. This puts dogs that chase TV characters around the back of the TV above Climate Change naysayers on the evolutionary scale.

Am I an eco-fascist? No. But I'd rather be an eco-fascist than an economic fascist.

Which should be a higher priority, do you think:

1) our economy
2) the biological medium in which we live and survive (aka the environment)

If you answered #1 you really should stop reading my content since my content is aimed at people who are, you know, rational.

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