The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism written by Christopher Horner is an invaluable reference for anyone wanting to learn about the global warming issues.

Christopher Horner's short career with Enron combined with his knowledge of political forces inside the D.C. beltway provide personal insight into the political dimension of global warming, most of which has not be widely disclosed. Through personal contacts with Al Gore and President Clinton, as well as wide support from the green movement, Enron was set to exploit the global warming issues for tens of billions of dollars. According to Horner, contributing factor in the collapse of Enron was the unwillingness of the United States to play this dangerous game.
It may also come as a surprise to learn that Ken Lay and the CEO of British Petroleum (BP) John Browne, had meetings in the White House in 1997 with Al Gore and President Bill Clinton. Their agenda was to ensure that the US agreed the Kyoto Protocols. You have read that correctly: BP who wanted the US to agree to the Kyoto Protocols. Why? Such a compliance with the Kyoto Protocols would have imposed major costs upon the US energy industry and all of those who use energy; a very large hidden tax. Both Enron and BP both would have made billions from this hidden tax that would have been extracted from the people of the United States. It should make you think twice about claims that it are the big oil companies that are claiming there is no global warming. As previously mentioned in the REAL NEWSpaper, the oil industry only stands to gain from global warming.

In a field that both expands and changes, Horner's book is surprisingly up to date. Part 1, entitled Environmentalism and Authoritarians, contains three chapters on the environmental movement, its activities, agendas, and the environmentalist impulse to run and control the lives of others. Working closely with the United Nations and the international community, as well as social, corporate, and media elites, this movement always needs a unifying force, an external boogie man, to create a mass of frightened people united in fear of impending doom. Al Gore and his propaganda experts have done exactly that.
The issue also provides a pretext to gain control over the way people live, where we live, where we travel, etc. Global problems need global solutions and thus messy things like national sovereignty and borders become of secondary importance. Horner says that "according to the greens own numbers world wide deindustrialization is absolutely critical given available and even unforeseeable energy technologies if we are to save the planet". This is the big justification for international law and global governance - a new world order in the truest sense of the world.

Horner also writes of the maniacal green opposition to nuclear power plants, to dams, as well as to oil, coal, and natural gas. These add up to more than 98% of the total US electrical capacity. A nation short of electricity is almost the definition of a Third World country, and is what many greens seem to have in mind for the US.
This is not a battle about man-made CO2 in microscopic levels in the atmosphere. We've seen those levels in the past. It is about control of lives. They cite a "consensus", which is what you do when you don't have the facts (or they are turning out to be non-existent or at least un-named). Consensus is alien to science and is quite meaningless. They liken sceptics to Holocaust deniers and demand 'Nuremburg-style" trials of the non-believers, and call for their silence and defunding. Personal ad hominem attacks are common fare. We've seen all this thuggery before in human history, from the burning of witches, the French Revolution, the brutal monarchs, humiliations of Galileo, Semmelweis, and the destruction, deprivation, and despair of hundreds of millions under Marxism.

Part 2, Global Warming, the Convenient Lies, takes the reader through many of the acts of deception by global warming activists. One of the more memorable was the discussion of the number of temperature stations around the world. With data provided by Ross McKitrick, the number of temperature stations around the world dropped by about 7000 in the 1989-1990 time frame. Thousands of these were in the Soviet Union at the time when that nation was going through major upheaval and economic collapse. With much bigger problems, these temperature stations were shut down. Now try to imagine the problem in calculating an average global average temperature when thousands of the coldest stations are shut down? An average temperature using the remaining stations showed an increase in global temperature of about 1 degree C. This is called a major data quality problem.

Part 4 of this book is entitled Making You Poorer and Less Free, and details the estimated costs of this political agenda. Horner details the economic price being paid by the Europeans. Spain is enduring blackouts and energy rationing. It has closed three fossil plants for failing to have emission permits. One manufacturer has made good on his promise to leave Spain and has instead expanded to South Africa and to Kentucky. In England companies had to pay an extra $875,000,000 for emission permits in 2005, when British electrical bills shot up 34%. Similar problems are occurring in Germany, too. It is clear that someone is pushing the self-destruct button. The question is: who?