Summary
SPRING arrived this week with gentle hope and lots of daffodils. As I skipped along the road to The Scotsman, I felt euphoric at the turn of the seasons and the bounty of Mother Nature. Then I got to the local paper shop.
Emblazoned on the front pages were pictures of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, minus its iconic halo of pristine snow. The headlines screamed that these dramatic photos were a grim warning of the end of the world through human-induced global warming. The leaders of the G8 countries, about to meet in Scotland, were enjoined to put action on climate change at the top of their agenda before more naked Kilimanjaros appeared.See the full content of this document
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Sermon On the Mount a Global Scare Too Far
The apocalyptic tone was set for the rest of the week. The BBC ran hours on the notion that a giant volcano under Yellowstone Park in America was about to destroy the human race: "This is a true story; it just hasn't happened yet."
Why is my enjoyment of spring being interrupted with lurid tales of the end of the world?The story begins...See the full content of this document
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