NOTHING LIKE THE POLITICS OF FEAR - AT 8:56 A.M. ET:  The British prime minister, likely to be gone by next year, gives us a dose of the new-time religion in employing the scare tactics now expected from the global-warming crowd.  From BBC:

The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heat waves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned.

If a religious leader said anything like that, he'd be accused of being a right-wing fundamentalist.

Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse."

He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B."

World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty.

COMMENT:  This comes at a time when more and more scientists are questioning the "science" behind global warming, a science that seems to be making some people hawking "alternative technologies" awfully rich.

What is lacking is definitive science.  What is also lacking is an understanding of the impact on the world's population, especially in poor countries, if Western economies are badly damaged by reckless "environmental" regulation. 

Let us by all means protect the environment and improve our technology.  But carefully.  Real science, not political science.

October 20, 2009