Roy: Do you have a link to your earlier reference, Augustin/Barbante? I will try and chase it down anyway.
Could I just add that I’m not saying AGM isn’t happening. I’m saying the alarmists haven’t proved it’s happening, never mind proving that it’s a sufficiently dire threat to merit imposing crippling restrictions on the economies of the developing world.
My beef here is with the massive media bias in favour of the alarmist claims. My other beef is that very few of the main drivers of alarmism appear to be in it for altruistic reasons. It’s not the tree-huggers who bother me. The real forces behind this stand to gain financially, or in terms of political power.
Tanstaafl rightly mentions Gore, although these days he’s probably the alarmists’ own worst enemy. He’s an elitist blowhard and a hypocrite. More worrying are people like Soros and Maurice Strong, who’s made no secret of his desire to basically end free-market capitalism as we know it.
Google him, read this 2002 profile by Ezra Levant, and be very afraid:
http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/Maurice-Strong/article1.html
It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Scorpio and the Globex Corporation.
