We live in a media-driven age in which self-fulfilling prophesies are often promulgated by agenda-driven people. Whether it is "the sky is falling" doomsday prognosticators in economics or the same "dark side" forces at work in predicting a global climate armageddon just past the next dawn, just follow the money or the politics. There is an abundance of bad science on both sides.

Mankind produces only a small portion of all of the methane produced daily. So, shouldn't we kill all the other vegetation eating animals in the world because their farts cause global warming? All the humans in the world who involuntarily exhale produce many metric tons of carbon dioxide daily. Do we all need to stop breathing?

What about a rational view? I can agree that we need to have clean air and clean water for reasons of health and safety alone. It would be preferable, and it will be inevitable, that we find a substitute for fossil fuels. But, we can't stop the world and go back to the dark ages in order to satisfy the zealots among us who buy into the insupportable doomsday predictions.