Thanks for posting that Happyanika! I have wanted to reply to this thread but haven't had time to do the research to back up my comments.

My main point was that it's not the governments who are "pushing" global warming, it's the scientists, thousands of them from many countries. The governments are only now being forced to listen, mainly because people are finally cluing in that this is real and since we are the voting public, the govt finally realizes they have to address it, even it it means pi$$ng off their "big business" friends. Sadly, in Canada, the govt sucks at dealing with global warming. The recent laws to reduce emissions are weak and will barely make a dent. We won't even make the Kyoto targets - I'm embarrassed by my govt on this issue.

Go watch An Inconvenient Truth to have a better understanding of why this warming trend is so different from any natural weather pattern. Most scientists in the world now agree that the warming is man-made. That part is no longer under contention. Just how fast and what effect it will have, we will have to wait and see. But go up north and ask the polar bears, and they'll tell you it's happening even faster than they originally thought.