There have been many such cons in the past and for example Y2K. Anthropomorphic climate change has the same hysteria around it as Y2K did in 1999. Y2K was mostly a con by IT companies to scare you into buying their products and services. I remember a report in the 90s where Russia was criticized as being irresponsible for not doing enough to protect against Y2K. Russia response was that the considered the issue and believed it was not a big deal. The US wasted $40 Billion on Y2K while Russia spent only $200 Million just to be on the safe side. Russia was proven right and Americans were proven to be suckers. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2000/jan/09/y2k.observerbusiness Even if Anthropomorphic climate change is a real problem, will the proposed solutions which will cost Trillions of dollars to the Global economy really going to make a difference? People think that carbon trading is like trading a tangible commodity. It is not. Much of it is smoke (pardon the pun) and mirrors . If someone is missing a ton of copper, sooner or later they will come looking for it. If the atmosphere has an extra billion tonnes of CO2 that accountants say shouldn’t be there, is the atmosphere going track down who put it there and make them take it back?