The point I picked out was the main point I wanted to put down here on technological surprises. If it had been up to me, I would not have linked to the rest of it given a choice, but that wouldn't have been right.

I didn't really want to get into the global warming crap here and now, but it's a fact that the prime function of this issue right now, legitimate issue or not, is as a political weapon against the industrial West by anti-western interests both domestic and international.

That Kyoto excluded China, and that most global warming activists do not want to even discuss workable technological solutions (like nuclear power), should have been enough of a gigantic red flag to convince most people that the main issue was crippling the United States, not dealing with emissions.