Towards the end of the 90s environmentalism and climate change awareness was rising fast. The "War on Terror" and the war in Iraq, as well as providing 'cover' for the oil men to plunder the Middle East also provided them with a useful 'distraction' from the environmental cause as they peddled more and more fear.

The neo-cons are not only ruthless in achieving their self-serving ambitions, they are also repsonsible for knocking cliamte change into the long grass for the last 6 years - and still they are not being held to account for their deception and abusive treatment of us all.

Clearly the momentum behind Global Warming (GW) hysteria is growing to unmanageable size. Microsoft is cashing in on the nonsense by introducing a new Xbox game designed to foster an uncritical acceptance of GW in the minds of children. Some Industrialists, which should no better, are exploiting GW fear for commercial advantage - to prove themselves greener then green. Other Industrialists may plan to join the GW crusade with the object of neutralising the nonsense, as inside members of the club.

Are there any remaining politicians with the intestinal fortitude to challenge the force of poll driven opinion? But there is hope, countries and political parties will never agree on targets and objectives. Many more national priorities will prove in the long run to be more pressing then the GW fictional scenarios. Press reports are slowly appearing of the uselessness of carbon trading and carbon credits. Who wants a waste product, unless of course it can be used in a further manufacturing process? As far as I know CO2 has no manufacturing use. Again there are early press reports of fraud in the so called carbon market.

Suppose I am wrong and GW is for real. Well a few obvious precautionary moves can be performed. For instance Australia is way behind the rest of the world in furthering a nuclear energy industry. Now nuclear power generation [NPG] would be a well worthwhile response to the GW hysteria. What is more NPG can de justified and argued for other reasons, such as the health and safety record of the industry?

"What is more NPG can de justified and argued for other reasons, such as the health and safety record of the industry?"

....so no problems with Iran developing NPG then anti-green?

Fertility rates wordwide have fallen below replacement.
Generally, there is a strong correlation between the fertility of a country and its degree of economic development - the higher the GDP per head, the lower the fertility.
For instance, the birth rate in Singapore fell from 3.4% in 1957 to 1% in 1975.
If AGW is a serious problem (I don't know if it is and I don't think anyone else does) then the solution lies in halting the natural population growth in economically underdeveloped countries and the only ethical way of doing so, is to encourage their economic development through unrestricted trade.

I'll believe we are really green when I see all the lefties riding pedal bikes and living in solar homes and eating sprouts. Until then it's a scam to poach income from the oil moguls. I see the God of global warming Al Gore flies in a private jet that is in no way green and rides in cars that spew greenhouse gases like a Chinese factory powered by coal to pedal his books rather than pedal his ass to hawk his books.
Al Gores about as green as a leprechaun. If you believe in leprechauns.

I agree aqvarivs the hypocrisy and tokenism of most in the green movement is staggering.