[lbo-talk] Children losing sleep over global warming

[James Heartfield]

Jenny Brown asks: "Isn't the question of whether climate chaos is happening 
separate from the question of whether it's human-caused?  Are you 
maintaining that it's not human caused AND it's not happening?"

Climate is chaos, there is not much point losing sleep over it. Without 
industry and agriculture we would indeed be at the mercy of the elements. 
>From the IPCC I see that since 1900 the average recorded surface temperature 
has increased by about one degree celsius. 
http://www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics/2001syr/large/05.24.jpg

Fifty years from now people will wonder what all the fuss was about, just as 
we would if we were to reflect on some other panics of recent times, like 
the danger of a Soviet missile strike, black muggers, Greater Serbia, 
genetically modified food, international terrorism, new variant CJD,  the 
heterosexual AIDS epidemic, Bird Flu, family breakdown, etc. etc.