Why am I sceptical about man made global warming?

Does it strike you that many of the most evangelical environmentalists are also anti-capitalist, anti-western, anti-nuclear types? The type who would wish to curb our freedoms, regardless of any climate problems? Who appear to despise our way of life, while simeoultaneously benefitting from it?

Not the sort of people from whom I would choose to take advice, let alone orders. And yet, and yet, something has elevated them to the position where their whims have become our orders.

Of course, that something is the man-made (anthropomorphic) global warming theory, or AGW. Its official acceptance has been a God-send to every NIMBY, every hippy, every would-be bossy boots and town hall bully in the west. They welcome "green taxes" as ways of forcing us to change our behaviour, to bend to their will.

Many regimes have used mass participation as a method of drumming up support, resigning the masses to their circumstances and brainwashing. Think of the massed rallies beloved of totalitarian states, the Hitler youth, even the Home Guard in the UK. Force/ persuade people to participate and they will eventually accept the situation they are in.

Greens love to see fuel prices increase: we will be forced to drive less and live colder. They love landfill tax: we will be forced to spend our free time participating - sorting through our rubbish. They want councils to collect less often (rubbish that is, not money!), because that forces us to live with our sins for longer. We participate longer in the garbage cycle. They want our bins made smaller, and even weighed, to make us think, worry and then buy into their philosophy, or at least feel too helpless to resist.

That is their motivation, as it seems to me, but what was the motivation to make this accepted as the official theory?

To be continued...