Isn't it obvious that global warming isn't a threat to the world's economy, but idiotic global warming "solutions" *are* a threat?

CNBC's Fast Money : Outlook Gloomy at Secret Billionaire Meeting - CNBC

[Note no mention of climate change] “They saw the United States in a long-term slow growth environment with the near-term risk of recession quite real,” said Wien, in a commentary to Blackstone clients. “The Obama administration was viewed as hostile to business and that discouraged both hiring and investment. Companies and entrepreneurs were reluctant to add workers because they didn’t know what their healthcare costs or taxes were going to be.”

Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground

Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff, who warned as far back as the 1980s of the dangers of a public deficit, lent credence to such dark predictions in an International Monetary Fund publication last week.

He unveiled a doomsday scenario -- which many dismiss as pure fantasy -- of an economic clash between superpowers the United States and China, which holds more than 843 billion dollars of US Treasury bonds.

"A minor trade dispute between the United States and China could make some people think that other people are going to sell US treasury bonds," he wrote in the IMF's Finance & Development review.

Flashback: The Threat of Pollution Tariffs: Economists Warn of a Climate Trade War - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Now, Western politicians are getting more open with threats to make the most CO2-intensive imports more expensive -- with the help of punitive tariffs. If the West protects the environment, Senator Kerry said in Copenhagen, then climate sinners will not "dump high carbon intensity products into our markets." Kerry's thinly veiled threat: In this case, "I speak for the United States." According to a report in the New York Times, the Americans even tried to accommodate the possibility of unilateral penalties in the final document out of Copenhagen, but without success.