I guess I'm a little "old school" when these Chicken Little type hysteria cries occur - Who is making a buck on it?

If people are getting rich on an hysteria of any kind - through book sales, speaking engagements, honoraria, taxpayer-funded research, et cetera - then the profiteers of the hysteria have compromised any credibility in the quest to continue the incoming money stream. That does not mean they won'[t have their followers, because it often happens that the followers who make the profiteers rich WANT to follow something, anything that sounds righteous.

That does not mean that pollution control isn't a good thing to do. However, when the goal is to crucify American industry so that what is made here cannot be any longer, and the industrial base shifts offshore to nations which practice little if any pollution control, that's illogical and dangerous.

The reverse argument is that the US may become the world leader in green technology if extreme pollution control done under the banner of Global Warming occurs. However, that presupposes there is a market for the so-called green technologies, and that the market will be there when and if green products are developed and fielded before the economy totally tanks. In addition, who is willing to invest in green product development, or is this another "stick the taxpayer" scheme?

What a gamble! The US would be betting on a 100-1 shot, and China is a guaranteed winner no matter what.