Dtmack: You raise a good point. I think its rather curious at best and definitive at worst that all of the solutions to Global Warming involve vast new bureaucracies internationally and additional empowerment of existing ones nationally, along with higher taxes.

No one who is concerned about GW appears to be thinking of any technology or economic solutions that would make it more favorable for the consumer to choose solutions rather than impose external requirements on everyone.

At the Pentagon I observed repeatedly how government agencies and private firms both constantly sought to expand their “customers” by seeking the Denizens of DC to impose solutions. I do not believe it was a coincidence that Ozone Depletion became a big issue as the patents on Freon expired. Neither do I think it was happenstance that Carbon Dioxide became definable as a pollutant just after we got so many smokestacks and tailpipes cleaned up.

Follow The Money: I would suggest that a law be passed making each and every scientist, politician, NGO, and private firm that promoted GW pecuniarily liable for all the costs incurred when GW is revealed as One Big Ass Mistake, America. A $10T plus bill out in the future ought to give even those people pause. And let’s go ahead and build the slave labor camps for these people now so they will be ready when that day comes.