Peter Foster: From Berlin to Copenhagen - Full Comment

This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the U.S. Congress that inaction on climate change amounted to a new “Berlin Wall” of “short- sighted self-interest.”

Ms. Merkel’s claim was upside down. There is indeed a new threat to freedom in the offing, but it is the Green Wall that she is recommending. It will span the globe, and there will be no escape.

What collapsed twenty years ago was Communism. What didn’t collapse was anti-capitalism, which remains the principle driver of most shades of politics. The new name for anti-capitalism is environmentalism. The most important political trajectory of the past two decades has been from the rubble of the Wall to the forthcoming climate conference in Copenhagen.

Gore to Obama: Don’t Skip Copenhagen - Washington Wire - WSJ

Washington Wire: A survey released last month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that fewer Americans see global warming as a very serious problem. The survey also found a decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity. What do you make of that?

Gore: I think that poll was something of an outlier. [how about the 75+ polls here?]