Call me cynical, but when I read the following in Joseph Romm’s Salon article, “Anti-science conservatives must be stopped,” I imagined Chicken Little running around screaming, “The sky is falling.”

To avert disaster, we need to cut carbon emissions in the transportation sector some 60-80 percent by 2050.

Like a good author, Romm writes this sentence with authority . . . yet he backs it up with absolutely no proof.

Why is it that fear mongering has become the preferred choice for firebrands on both sides of the fence, whether invoking the threat of terrorism or global warming? I’m so sick and tired of this seemingly endless shrill shrieking. Remember that old expression about empty vessels making the most sound?

All I know is that fear mongering makes a lot of money for those mongering. Empty vessels, sure, but rich ones, too.

What, me worry?