Here's what britannica has to say
about it: So there wasn't a
disaster because people looked at what evidence said
about a
pending risk and made rational (albeit expensive) choices to remediate the issue.
But such was the spectacle of
pending disaster that anyone who dared — or was allowed — to question whether the sky is really
about to fall on us (and there were at least half a dozen of moderate anti-alarmists present), was branded a «usual suspect», a slur hurled against Andrei Illarionov (Putin» s economic adviser) by the IPCC» s Martin Parry.