Wild-eyed Doom-mongers

The incomparable Walter Williams delivers a few more kicks to the nearly-deceased equine carcass of global warming "theory":

It's not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers have always been wrong.

Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity?

When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome?

In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken?

Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?

Doomsday "theories" like global warming attract the ignorant and easily-duped like carrion attracts flies. Everyone deals with the reality of their insignificance differently. Some turn to religion, some to family, some simply accept it. Lacking the ability to embrace any of those options, others look for something to cling to which they believe will help them feel more important, something they can point to and say "I helped with that. See what I have accomplished!"

Much like adherents to organized religious faiths, doomsayers take for granted what they lack the knowledge to fully comprehend. Pointing out the myriad logical flaws and inconsistencies in their ideas simply makes them angry, because you're attacking the faith upon which their sense of identity is based. Faith and reason can't share the same bed for long, and that's why the cult of anthropogenic global warming is slowly dying off. Fear not, however; it will be replaced by something equally hysterical and nonsensical. That's the nature of humanity.