Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of The Satanic Gases, reports on the latest round of environmental alarmism. The gist:

The way to get attention these days is with media theatrics, such as threatening climate gloom and doom. It’s not just climatologists, either. Just read the Washington papers for a few days to get the drift.

In reality, abrupt climate changes, like the ones noted above, have been with us since before we came out of the trees. But research funds don’t grow there. When the climate shifts abruptly, ecosystems are impacted