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The authors' friends used to ask them: Why do you butt into the
affairs o climatology when your own subject is soil science and mainly
soi physics and soil hydrology?
Answering them, they always say that they have at least three good
reasons. The first one, and for them the most important, are the
statements and announcements of many climatologists made public by
alarmists repeatedly in the media with dramatic scenarios. Media are
prosperous when they deal with catastrophes - the more intense and
richly colored the higher is the rating of the radio, TV or newspaper,
and thus profits of the owners are escalated. With principles of the
market being inexorable the various media submit themselves to such
statements and announcements with great pleasure. It is astonishing to
recognize how simple it has been for journalists to become producers
of articles of merchandise, and how easy it is now for them to forget
the slogan that journalists are vanguards of truth and justice. With
the world not being black and white there are newspapers and TV
channels that do not pursue strict market requirements and rewards,
but unfortunately, they belong to the minority.
Climatological alarmists offered two very attractive scenarios to
media. Scenario number 1: A hypothesis on global warming caused by
human activity. Scenario number 2: This warming may lead to a
catastrophe never experienced before by humans. The main cause of the
catastrophic change is the burning of fossil fuels by the industrial
society to produce energy. This burning is linked to the emission of
carbon dioxide CO2 that is the root of global warming
through its greenhouse effect.