GLOBAL WARMING TALK IS A LOT OF HOT AIR

A believer in man-made global warming says the Al Gore solution, cutting CO2 emissions by some sort of cap-and-trade system, is the wrong way to go.

George Will, who is a global warming skeptic, believes, as I do, that the international conferences being held on the issue will do absolutely nothing, since the developing nations like China and India will refuse to do anything to slow their own carbon-based economic growth.

What both men understand is that it is more important to allow the developing nations to bring their millions out of poverty than to spend money on solutions of minimal utility, or to waste time pretending to solve the problem by talking it to death. As people become wealthier, they become better stewards of the environment, and their societies become more innovative and, therefore, more capable of inventing and implementing solutions that will, eventually, replace carbon-based fuels as the primary energy source for the people of the world.