[James, you and Alexander Cockburn really merit membership in one of London's storied men's clubs, where you could sit in leather armchairs all day harrumphing to one another over whiskey and soda about extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. IMO Cockburn better deserves the tag Joker than Ace these days:]
April 28 / 29, 2007
>From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits
Is Global Warming a Sin?
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. ...
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Carl
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