Originally Posted by: CW14... If the global warming theory is a farce (just suppose that it is), what does the government (or anyone for that matter) get out of making the world believe it?

Examine the Kyoto Protocol, and you will see that its major effect is to transfer jobs and cash in huge quantities to developing nations that are not required to address their contributions to pollution. The US was quite right to reject it as being destructive to the economy without solving pollution problems. The Canadian socialists (Liberal Party of Canada) were suicidally irresponsible in committing Canada to this farce. The concept of sending billions of dollars to India in exchange for 'Green Credits', while their industry continues to pollute, is absurd. That money would be much better spent here on research into alternative fuels, more efficient industrial processes, and cleaning up the effects of pollution by effluent that is actually known to be toxic.