Actually, it's that plus the fact we've been hearing "*Insert catastrophic disaster* is going to happen by *insert time* if we don't *insert action* (usually involves giving government more control over our lives)" for decades. According to half of them, we should've experienced peak oil, run out of food because of overpopulation, frozen to death from a new ice age, or any number of a thousand things that haven't happened even though we've not stopped what we were told would cause them or done what was allegedly meant to prevent them. And not only has the world not ended, but man's standard of living has gone to levels that were unheard of barely fifty years ago and the work he must do to reach those levels has eased immensely (If you were a farmer, what would you rather have? A "clean" mule and a plow or an army of "dirty" diesel-powered combines and tractors? Why don't we ask people living in countries where the former is still all they have?)



And as far as this "record *insert something*" business...exactly how long has man been on the planet, exactly how long has he been able to track weather patterns, and exactly how often has he been right about such things? I'm sorry, but considering the earth has been around millions of years, and humanity hasn't been around for even half that time, I take these "this has never happened before" with a very large grain of salt. Not to mention the fact that such things aren't as dangerous nowadays as they were decades ago because of our improved technology.