Apocalyptic rhetoric about climate change is blinding us to reality

Remember the Millennium Bug? The world was likely to crash, since computers couldn’t handle the switch from 1999 to 2000. It was a great story, but we ended up spending billions to tackle an almost non-existent problem. Similiarly, in 1997-98, the weather pattern known as El Niño made itself felt in the US and elsewhere. On TV and in the newspapers, it was blamed for everything – wrecking tourism, causing more allergies, melting ski slopes, creating snowstorms, even causing a dip in Disney’s share price.

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