Suggested reading for Rob and others:
The "First Step in Solving a Problem" thread down below.
Scientists, governments, and political hacks pushing AGW are, as I write this, actually securing government grants, furthering academic careers, raising taxes, and taking away our freedom. Belief isn't required.
Here's "leading NASA climate scientist" James Hansen:
Under the global carbon tax proposal, the mechanisms for controlling fossil fuel use would be taken out of the hands of individual states influenced by energy companies, and politicians anxious about winning elections.
"It can't be fixed by individual specific changes; it has to be an across-the-board rising fee on carbon emissions," said Hansen. "We can't simply say that there's a climate problem, and leave it to the politicians. They're so clearly under the influence of the fossil fuel industry that they're coming up with cockamamie solutions which aren't solutions. That is the bottom line."
So we take the power out of the hands of "states" and "politicians" and put it all in the hands of...what? I don't know. You tell me.
This is the real bottom line.