IRELAND'S FUTURE - FACT OR FANTASY?

Entitled "Changing Shades of Green," the report by the Irish American Climate Project twins science gleaned from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the musings of a poet, a fiddler, a fisherman, a farmer and others with deep connections to Ireland.

This article describes the report which seems to be designed to scare its readers into believing that Ireland will change from The Emerald Isle to some sort of brown dust-bowl. The report is full of "could's" and "if's". I seriously wonder whether this sort of emotional blackmail will have the desired effect, or will the public rightly dismiss these "musings" as sentimental mush.