'Climate change' as socialist club

I am 100% convinced that "climate change" is merely the newest weapon socialists are using to fight capitalism. Anyone who concludes that current global warming is anthropogenic is a sucker or a socialist, considering the earth has a 1.2 billion year history of warming and cooling, naturally, with no possible human factor.

Fortunately some capitalists are fighting back. See this Financial Times article, via Tim Blair:

A UK government minister who attacked leading European airlines for failing to take climate change seriously was slapped down on Friday by industry critics and government colleagues.

Ian Pearson, the minister for climate change, branded Ryanair, Europe’s leading budget airline, as “the irresponsible face of capitalism” because it refuses to believe that air travel is a significant contributor to global warming.

He also took aim at Lufthansa for leaning on the German government, holder of the European Union presidency, to water down plans to include aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme. Mr Pearson described US airlines as “a disgrace” and said British Airways was “only just playing ball” on the need to curb emissions.

His outburst, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper, met a ferocious response from Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s outspoken chief executive, who said the minister was “foolish and ill-informed”. Being criticised by Mr Pearson was like being “savaged by a dead sheep”, the airline boss added.

Mr Pearson was also rebuked by furious colleagues, who said his outburst contradicted the policy of the government of Tony Blair, prime minister, of working with industry to curb emissions.

A senior official in the environment department said Mr Pearson had been told: “Get back in your box and stay there.”

“We want to be at the centre of government decision-making not an arm of Greenpeace.”

And what do we make of people who believe in "thousands more people being killed because of climate change within a decade."? Especially when this crowd blamed Katrina on Bush and global warming with no evidence other than it feels right to them? See below, from the London Times:

George Bush will be challenged by Europe today to back a post-Kyoto climate change agreement that would involve developed countries making a 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

The President rejected the Kyoto Protocol — which called for a US reduction of 7 per cent on 1990 levels by 2012 — as “fatally flawed” and likely to damage American industry.

But José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, will arrive at the White House for talks in an optimistic mood and set out his proposals for introducing a higher target.

He is expected to repeat the dire warnings of economic disaster that were made in the Stern report last year. An EU study that will be published this week will paint an apocalyptic picture of thousands more people being killed because of climate change within a decade.

I hope Bush keeps Mr. Barroso waiting in the lobby -- lit by a dozen incandescent light bulbs -- for hours on end.