Read here. The global warming Copenhagen crisis-extravaganza is most certainly a modern example of the media created 'madness of crowds' and the embarrassingly, extreme "scientific" delusion of elites. How this is occurring in the 21st century is simply astounding, but there is definite precedents:
1. Population growth and famine (Malthus) 1798
2. Timber famine economic threat 1865
3. Uncontrolled reproduction and degeneration (Eugenics) 1883
4. Lead in petrol and brain and organ damage 1928
5. Soil erosion agricultural production threat 1934
6. Asbestos and lung disease 1939
7. Fluoride in drinking water health effects 1945
8. DDT and cancer 1962
9. Population growth and famine (Ehrlich) 1968
10. Global cooling; through to 1975 1970
11. Supersonic airliners, the ozone hole, and skin cancer, etc. 1970
12. Environmental tobacco smoke health effects 1971
13. Population growth and famine (Meadows) 1972
14. Industrial production and acid rain 1974
15. Organophosphate pesticide poisoning 1976
16. Electrical wiring and cancer, etc. 1979
17. CFCs, the ozone hole, and skin cancer, etc. 1985
18. Listeria in cheese 1985
19. Radon in homes and lung cancer 1985
20. Salmonella in eggs 1988
21. Environmental toxins and breast cancer 1990
22. Mad cow disease (BSE) 1996
23. Dioxin in Belgian poultry 1999
24. Mercury in fish effect on nervous system development 2004
25. Mercury in childhood inoculations and autism 2005
26. Cell phone towers and cancer, etc. 2008