It interests me that most of the real hue and cry over “the global warming scam” is coming from countries we see as very socialist / liberal, such as England and France. Observe, from the UK Daily Mail:

The UN report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in February. At the time it was promoted as being backed by more than 2,000 of the world’s leading scientists.

 

But Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said it was a “sham” given that this list included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings.

 

Professor Reiter, an expert in malaria, said his name was removed from an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel.

 

“That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed,” he said. “It’s not true.”

 

Gary Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, claims clouds and solar activity are the real reason behind climate change.

And then this, from Canada.com, speaking about a prominent French scientist:

Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change “simplistic and obscuring the true dangers,” Dr. Allegre especially despairs at “the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man’s role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters.” The world would be better off, Dr. Allegre believes, if these “denouncers” became less political and more practical, by proposing practical solutions to head off the dangers they see, such as developing technologies to sequester C02. His dream, he says, is to see “ecology become the engine of economic development and not an artificial obstacle that creates fear.”

Much like one of my great blogger heroes, Glenn Reynolds, I think that reducing emissions of carbon should be the defacto goal of any nation - but it has to be done smartly, in ways that ensure that the huge western economies can still flourish. All of this alarmism is foolish.