The big question is why ?.......it isnt just a matter of a government using it as an excuse to raise taxes etc,the global establishment has become consumed by this and I dont belive that they actually buy into it (their actions say otherwise) so they have a big long term agenda but what is it.
Global government or similar 


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The short answer Albs is that I'm unsure. Yes, there, certainly an international political class that has an interest. Read the "Background & Development" PDF on this site:
http://www.apollo-gaia.org/It's written in couched terms, but the Club of Rome keeps cropping up. Wonder why?
On the other hand, there are big companies like Exelon in the States that stand to make huge amounts of money if the cap-and-trade bill is passed there and are actively lobbying for it.
http://greenhellblog.com/2009/07/28/uscap-members-spend-67-million-to-lobby/My view is that it started as a push for power by the political elite (incl. the UN) but, as always, big business has seen an opportunity to make easy money. Unlikely bedfellows, it must be said.
However, the more I read about the science the more I see it as a gigantic hoax. But too much money and too many reputations are at stake. Expect much more skullduggery in the next could of months leading up to Copenhagen.
Incidentally, the report today from the Met Office that we'll all fry in 2060, is absolute hogwash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8279654.stmI'll quote Lubos Motl here: "..the net UAH warming between 1979 and 2009 has been around 0.4 degrees Celsius. If extrapolated, and such extrapolations of violent short-term trends are likely to be overestimates, that would produce 0.6 degrees Celsius by 2060.
Their figure, 4 degrees Celsius, exceeds this extrapolated figure by a factor of seven, despite the approximate constancy of the CO2 production since 1979. In reality, the warming by 2060 will almost certainly be smaller than 0.6 degrees Celsius.
These people must think that all the other people have the IQ of a pumpkin to buy such manifest nonsense. "
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/09/four-degrees-celsius-in-50-years.html#moreExactly, Lubos!
Mind you, funny how the Hadley scientist's name mentioned in the BBC report above also appears in the earlier "apollo-gaia" PDF linked above.