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Are Children Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm?

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Freakonomics: Are Children Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm?

Even though Americans may be less concerned with global warming than people in many other countries, it is amazing how the subject has recently become so omnipresent. The media is brimming with global warming stories every day, from a variety of angles: environmental, economic, political, etc.

How did this happen? How has such a sweeping, complex, controversial issue become such a pressing concern — not overnight, certainly, but very rapidly as of late?

One theory came to mind the other day when I was looking over a list of the most profitable worldwide movie releases of 2006. No. 1 on the list was Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, an animated — and apocalyptic — kids’ movie, which took in just over $1 billion at the box office. …

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4 responses to “Are Children Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm?”

  1. ZZMike Avatar
    ZZMike

    That could be a connection. What is worrisome is that the hubbub over GW is taking away from some of the real problems that we might actually be able to do something about – gang violence, inner-city poverty, &c, &c.
    Twenty or so years ago, it was global cooling that was going to do us all in. About the same time, the Club of Rome was certain that the earth was going to run out of resources, and that we were all going to starve. (I think that even goes back to Malthus.)
    In any event, all these dire predictions turned out to be incorrect, as will the “prophets of doom” spreading the GW gospel.

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  2. Virgil Avatar
    Virgil

    Oh great…so we have a bunch of global warming alarmists growing up now and in 20 years they’ll all become Kyoto-style socialists at heart! How encouraging!

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  3. Michael Kruse Avatar
    Michael Kruse

    Mike, don’t leave out the various incarnations of Paul Ehrlich and the “Population Bomb.”
    I do suspect there are anthropogenic contributions to global warming. I suspect they are secondary to normal fluctuations from natural cause, most notably solar radiation. I suspect that IPCC models exaggerate the amount of coming warming by at least a factor of X2. (Mostly because when you feed the same variables into them from that existed at the beginning of the 20th Century they all predict a change more than double what actually occurred.) There is also evidence that much like the sun heating up the inside of your car to a point, the anthropogenic effect can only add so much to the temperature increase on the planet’s surface and that level has been reached, meaning that each succeeding increase in gases has minimal additional effect. Furthermore, it just isn’t true that every impact of global warming is negative. Somewhere between the obfuscation offered by certain large corporations and the apocalyptic visions of Big Science, statists, and Al Gore lies some environmental issues I think Christians need to ponder. But the deafening roar of the antagonists makes this virtually impossible to discuss.
    I have a post coming up soon on this dealing with science controversies in an age of complexity. I’ll say more there.

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  4. Michael Kruse Avatar
    Michael Kruse

    Hehehe…
    Not to worry Virgil. By the time they become adults, all of us will have fried, been blown away by a hurricane, or have drowned from rising sea levels. Socialism will no longer be an issue.
    🙂

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