Investor's Business Daily -- Cooling Down

Earthwatch, one of the environmental groups that commissioned the survey, claims the answers show that consumers would rather governments lead on the climate change issue. But given the weak support for the Kyoto global warming protocol — 27% want their countries to participate in international emissions-cutting agreements — and the fact that less than half (48%) actually say that governments should take the lead role on climate change, that seems like a shaky proposition.

A better interpretation of the results would be that a world that has been hammered incessantly by a global warming fear campaign, but which has yet to see any actual warming, has developed a healthy skepticism. That same world has also had a good look at the reality of current economic difficulties and found them more pressing than speculative disasters.
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The alarmists are busy this week at a United Nations climate conference in Poland, making absurd claims that humanity will suffer from increased war, hunger, disease, catastrophic weather and poverty if global warming is not brought under control.

But it's clear the world, much like kids who eventually come to understand that bedtime stories are generally fantasies, has grown wise to the environmental propaganda.

Detroit Execs Kneel and Pucker Up - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

All three will drive (presumably at a politically correct 55 mph) 15 hours from their Metro Detroit headquarters to DC across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. They will each pilot a separate, green vehicle symbolizing their commitment to the planet. Wagoner will be at the wheel of a Chevy Malibu hybrid, Mulally a Ford Escape hybrid, while Nardelli hasn’t yet disclosed his vehicle (though his company’s European-imported Smart car would seem the obvious choice).

Upon their arrival, their first congressional interrogator will no doubt demand to know why they didn’t carpool.
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Each auto executive will present a business plan to be leaner and greener in return for their public loans. On Tuesday, global-warming true-believer Mulally told the Wall Street Journal that he will present a plan redefining Ford as “a global, green, high-tech company that’s exactly where the country and the Obama administration want us to head.”

Not his customers, mind you. He will make cars that the “country” and the “Obama Administration want.” Sounds like a bid for nationalizing the industry to me.