It’s no coincidence that AGW became a major focus of the left right after the fall of the Soviet Union. Up until the collapse of the USSR the Marxist left still was trumpeting Marxism-socialism as a competitive economic system to capitalism…it was always purported to be able to provide a potentially higher standard of living for the masses due to the elimination of the “waste” of profits and the accumulation of too much wealth by too few.

The truth dealt a devastating blow to the left’s claims however. It was obvious that communism failed miserably in providing anywhere near the standard of living enjoyed by capitalist democracies, but with the advent of the theory of AGW the left found a new weapon to wield against the hated capitalists. Not only did it level the charge of global destruction as the side effect of capitalism and consumerism it conveniently presented the case that a lower standard of living was essential for our collective survival, thus absolving the left of its former claims to increased prosperity at the hands of a socialist economy. Naturally the nation in need of lowering these standards the most was the hated USA.

Only with the scare tactics of global catastrophe could one hope to get people to voluntarily lower their standard of living, thus the frantic propaganda efforts of the global warming hysterics. The chance to control and ration our energy consumption is a dream come true for those who believe in a top down command and control political system administered by an “enlightened” elite, and that in a nutshell is what the Transnational Progressive left is all about.

The fact that we’re flat to slightly cooling for the last eight or nine years and that an increasing number of reputable skeptics are making persuasive arguments refuting AGW hypotheses have the hysterics ratcheting up the volume and frantically trying to shut down dissenting voices.

Of course the current economic crisis provides an alternative to AGW as an excuse for a power grab as the left will spin it as a failure of the free market and the need for more government intrusion into the economy, with it’s concomitant loss of economic freedom for the citizenry. Always the goal is the same. To take the freedom of decision making (power) from individuals and placing it in the hands of government bureaucrats. AGW provides a perfect vehicle for this and it explains why the left is ga-ga for the idea while the right smells a big stinking rat.