I'm still alive.

I've noticed a recent trend to blame this year's strange weather on Global Warming, instead of el Nino. Interestingly, there is a headline that Global Warming will kill over 4.5 billion people by 2012. Problem is, that means "Global Warming could kill three quarters of the world's population in the next five years." Yeah, right.

I know, I know, credentialled scientists and all that. No, I'm not a credentialled scientist. But if you're going to claim that only about one in four humans will exist in five years, you've got to come up with something better than "because we have to act now."

Especially when credentialled scientists have been wrong in the past about overpopulation and an Ice Age that was going to start in the 1970s. And many of the non-scientists's solution is some hand-wavy "get rid of coal and oil power, but don't replace them with nuclear power."

Besides, we all know (1) oil is scarce and (2) oil prices would be lower if they weren't manipulated for political purposes. I have no idea how those points can both be true at the same time, but I've heard them so often I'm sure there's something there.