Joe Biden’s climate-change plans will burn billions, won’t bring change we actually need

The latest alarming news about climate change is that huge swaths of densely inhabited land will be underwater by 2050, with their cities “erased.” These reports – which appeared in The New York Times and many other media outlets – are based on a good research paper by scientists at Climate Central, but they get the story wrong.

This is part of a damaging pattern. Climate change is a man-made problem that we need to tackle, but many of the news stories about its purported effects are scaring us without justification and misleading us about how to act.

2013-05-21 Vychovávají nás k tomu, abychom recyklací papíru zachraňovali stromy. V e-mailech dostáváme nespočet upozornění: "Před vytištěním prosím zvažte dopad na životní prostředí." Ostatně environmentalismus se zrodil právě z výzvy k ochraně lesů. (...)