I've just gotta ask myself exactly what other agenda is at work here? Then I look at the political activists and other behind the scenes figures at work...HARD at work....pushing this "imminent catastrophe" on an ignorant and trusting populace. Pushing hard and fast so as to enact global change before a gently slumbering populace awakens.
Check THIS out: U.N.
not = "NOW." Amazing the difference of one little word. Now the sentence makes more sense!
The same folks ranting about global warming are also ranting about peak oil and the world running out of fuel.....geeeze, you'd think one global catastrophe is enough...but nooooo they KNOW that to spur immediate, global change in entire societies and cultures, there has to be a major "threat."
When the USSR died and the threat of imminent thermonuclear war went away....then the primary motivator also left. Those agitators had no place to go to advance the agenda. So they saw an opening in radical environmentalism. BINGO! Hey this is better than doomsday by bomb. It's doomsday alright but we can all prevent it....our "enemies" and we can put aside old wounds and differences and come together as human beings for the sake of planetary survival ~bile rising in throat, fighting the urge to REgurge~ and presenting a united front save the world.
All it takes is for a little bit of change in how we live and (oddly enough) how we govern ourselves. There's no hope left. No more oil and even if there were, all this industry and those evil SUVs are smothering our beloved mother Earth!