More Climate Change Email Leaks

[Elok]

I don't think Y2K is really comparable either. I seem to recall the hysteria being pretty routinely mocked by the media, for one thing. There was nothing like the broad consensus we have with climate change.

[Asher]

I don't think Y2K is really comparable either. I seem to recall the hysteria being pretty routinely mocked by the media, for one thing. There was nothing like the broad consensus we have with climate change.

And most of the experts cautioned against the hysteria, saying it wouldn't be nearly a big deal as the media was hyping.

[giblets]

1. It wasn't government regulation that brought about the green revolution.
2. Do you think it was in response to the threat of starvation, or the fact that farms like making money and becoming 6 times as efficient at producing crops is a bit of a money spinner?
3. Even if you were right and this were a valid counterpoint to the essay, that leaves numerous other entirely bunk doomsday theories that were Scientifically Proven. I stand by my pillar of salt (as Michael Crichton put it).

1/2: Yes, governments were involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_revolution#History
3. What, like Y2K? A lot of his examples have nothing to do with what the scientific consensus was.

[Elok]

I was never entirely clear on what kind of disasters the Y2K bug was supposed to cause anyway. Or how they would occur.

[Cort Haus]

While there was a lot of hype about Y2K, it does also get presented as a problem which never really existed. From my experience at the time though, there was a lot of stuff that got fixed. Not really end-of-the-world-stuff in terms of what I worked on, but things that needed fixing for businesses to run as they should.

[Asher]

I was never entirely clear on what kind of disasters the Y2K bug was supposed to cause anyway. Or how they would occur.

It could lead to undefined behaviour in computer programs.

[BeBMan]

All the Fox News political agenda stuff is just amateurish. The GOP should look how things are run in Italy under our good friend Silvio, he has a lot more expertise in this field

[MikeH]

Y2K was a problem that existed, but didn't cause major disruption because people spend billions on contractors who spent years fixing compliance issues.

[BlackCat]

Nice

[BlackCat]

The best part start at about 1:15