A climate of fear http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/paranoid-planet/2007/03/17/1174080219538.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Apocalyptic talk about global warming has stirred the sediment of old fears - the mushroom cloud has returned to haunt us. But, Thornton McCamish writes, the last great fright was a little different from the new one. LAST year felt a bit like Armageddon all over

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