David Warren - Professional moran.

So, David Warren in his aptly titled The Scare Tacticians starts off by describing how all those old environmental problems were hoaxes that he hardly had time to describe in his limited space. You remember things like the "acid rain hoax" and the "CFC hoax" right? I mean, all reasonable thinking people believe that those things were hoaxes perpetrated by the money hungry environmental movement.

Contrary to Lomborg’s Litany thesis, environmental groups often employ success stories to encourage a dispirited public to understand that change is possible. The crisis of eutrophication in the Great Lakes has been dealt with through regulating phosphates in detergents. The scourge of acid rain has been substantially, though not entirely, addressed through legally mandated reductions in SO2 emissions. The threat of ozone depletion has been largely averted through the Montreal Protocol and global restriction on the manufacture and trade in ozone depleting substances. Similarly, I know of no environmental scientist or organization that would dispute that economic growth has created unprecedented levels of wealth, that more people in industrialized countries enjoy a much longer expected life span than a century ago, that infectious disease claims fewer lives (again in industrialized countries) or that air pollution in London has decreased since the killing smog of 1952 killed over 4,000 in a week.

from Canadian Business Law Journal, Spring 2002 as quoted from Elizabeth May's facebook Dec 2, 2009.

Gee, that was posted on Dec 2, 2009. Which means that a prominent Canadian figure was talking about acid rain and other environmental success stories as he reads his ideologically narrow web pages. It was actually amusing to see 60 minutes described as a liberal and that it was nice to see them talk about the "acid rain hoax". Here is what a reputable resource is saying:

Environment Canada has released the 2004 Canadian Acid Deposition Science Assessment which shows that despite Canada's success at reducing acid causing emissions, acid deposition is still affecting our environment.

Gee, ya think that controlling the emissions prevented the worst of the predictions from happening? The fact that we took fairly massive, yet fairly inexpensive, action to ensure emissions of SO2 Ya think? David Warren, you got a computer? I mean, Environment Canada man! Just add the word Canada to the end of your search string!

Remember having to put new stuff in your car air conditioner? I bet you were one of those guys who just vented the refrigerant to the open air to save the 15 buck collection fee. Those efforts have helped, but not cured the ozone hole too.

I'm tired of you morans getting in the way with unproven assertions, lies, ignorance, and selfishness. The big "environmentalist money grab" just does not happen. No matter what, the environmentalists will not be the ones making the real money in the end which ever way global warming goes.