Reply #124: Big push was never from US based enterprises

[JonQ]

it's always been a largely international occurrence. Hence, the CRU in europe is heading it up, and the major meetings have been in europe and asia.

Surely you don't think the US is the only country in the world?

"Please explain how government "benefits" from global warming being real and all of the attendant problems. They would save money and grief by simply denying it out of hand. You claim there's an agenda, then prove it."

Cap and trade, a massive expansion in government that would provide more tax revenues, more employees and more ways to reward/punish supporters/opponents.

Can you think of a time in history when a government has voluntarily turned down more money and more power? A few perhaps, usually following a bloody revolution. But not often.

You really don't see putting more money in the governments coffers as a reason for them to act?