Climate Coercion

Predicting catastrophe is a lucrative business. By doing so, the big environmental groups, such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Sierra Club, have grown into leviathans with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. They stir up a media frenzy about present or future harm (population, pesticides, famine, acid rain, sperm counts, the ozone layer, and so on); get their most articulate spokespeople on television, preferably with a celebrity or a gimmick involving rappelling; and sit back and watch the dollars roll in.

What is different about the present climate scare is twofold.