No comment, really.

Government warnings - usually found with scientific backing.

Let's make a list:

New ice age.

Nuclear winter.

Hole in ozone layer which permit the sun to fry us.

Millenium bug.

Acid rain to dissolve us.

Bird flu.

Al Qaeda atrocities multiplying.

Piggy flu.

Global warming.

AND STILL - countless citizens are prepared to uncritically believe any scare stories originating from governments without bothering to recall how many times we have been scammed - or at best been victims of over-zealous worrymongering - in the recent past.

Orwellian bogeyman politics! The danger however, is that we shall be ill-prepared on the one occasion one of these scare stories proves to be true!