Gonna regret that last post

Because I have now been quoted in the New York Times in the Freakonomics blog in a post on global warming or climate change or whatever they are calling it now.  (Hmmm, how about "apocalyogenesis"--man-caused apocalypse because we all hate Gaia?  Climaticide?  I digress.)

Article is here.

There have been a series of posts at Freakonomics over the last week or so and they have flared up into a real full-on pogrom against any one who expresses anything other than unequivocal belief in man-caused climaticide.

It all began when Steven Dubner wrote about this article from the BBC titled, "What Happened to Global Warming?"  Dubner's article is here, with the prophetic headline, "A Headline That Will Make Global Warming Activists Apoplectic".  Boy, did it, and they unloaded on Mr. Dubner and Steven Levitt of Freakonomics.  Typically, the attacks got personal and histrionic very quickly.

Mr. Levitt followed up with this article, which seemed to only stoke the flames, thus adding to global warming.

And then today's post from Mr. Myhrvold, as referenced above.

I hope that this whole series of articles, appearing as it does in the New York Times and thus in front of the Upper East Siders, will provoke some actual thought processes about the not-so-imminent death of our planet as opposed to the current reflexive reactions it now provokes.  Live frugally, don't be wasteful, drive an SUV if it suits you and quit fretting over whether or not it is green to flush your toilet more than once a day.  We're not running out of oil, water, air or anything else any time soon.