On the frontiers of junk science...

"The Group of Eight industrial nations are concluding this week's Scotland summit, and Britain's Royal Society is warning them that very soon the oceans will turn acidic and the fish will die. As the argument runs, over-population creates too many greenhouse gases, which, together with global warming, contribute to the acidity of the oceans, then the oceans die, and global chaos ensues. The answer -- abortion, naturally.

Amazingly (or not?), the global-warming doomsdayers have joined forces with population-control advocates, trotting out their fuzzy science in support of abortion -- particularly across Africa and the rest of the Third World. How the killing of African babies will save the oceans is never actually explained, but presumably abortion now means fewer greenhouse gases later. In its most elemental form, then, fewer Africans means better oceans. According to that logic, does the Royal Society propose that the G8 should allow the AIDS pandemic to run its course? Then again, ideologically driven "science" can't be troubled with consistency."