The Los Angeles Times manages to take its usual, circuitous way around to tell us its grim story, but in the end has made my point that natural cataclysmic events like plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and rare unscheduled visits by a celestial object present a far greater, and over time, a more real and present danger to humankind than any imagined threat from gradual climate change, whether it be caused by human agency or nature. The media should be ashamed of themselves for … [Read more...]