Just because we avoided some disasters (WW3) and acted globally to prevent others (ozone hole) doesn't mean they weren't real issues with potentially disastrous

Just because we avoided some disasters (WW3) and acted globally to prevent others (ozone hole) doesn't mean they weren't real issues with potentially disastrous consequences. In fact we should be looking at how we avoided some of those outcomes and learn from them. The ozone hole is particularly illustrative because of it's similarity to today's problem with CO2. > Or maybe it's the fact I'm Canadian and we generally push back against extremism, alarmism, most isms really. How about other forms of alarmism, the reducing use of fossil fuels will destroy our way of life, collapse the economy, etc? I see a lot of people worried about "climate alarmism" but they never seem to be concerned about there own alarmsism. > and I've heard that New York will be underwater and all the glaciers will be gone by 2020 Citation please? I see this claim frequently yet either no citations are provided or they rely on the readers lack of comprehension, memory or both. The alarmisim is probably in your head. As for calling it "too acidic", that's fairly obviously more understandable for the lay reader than "not basic enough" would be.