Just a few years ago, we were told that frogs were disappearing because of global warming. We were told that there was no further time to waste, that soon the world would be frog-bereft, so we had no choice but to limit crabon emissions or all would be lost. Now it turns out that this prediction was as valid as the prediction that snow would vanish from Britain, and that Australia was doomed to extreme drought. As the UK digs out of record snowfall, and Australia copes with extreme floods, the frogs are bouncing back. Apparently that peer-reviewed, scientific consensus was flat out wrong. First, the doomsters:National Geographic News (January 2006)Global warming may cause widespread amphibian extinctions by triggering lethal epidemics, a new study reports. J. Alan Pounds and colleagues :"Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians and will cause staggering losses of biodiversity if we don't do something fast."...Climate scientists have long warned that global...(Read Full Post)