Sal, your link is not a news item!

It's a very blatent piece of advertising for a forthcoming book by Nigel Lawson ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Thatcher regime, architect of the Lawson boom that inevitably led to bust.

As long ago as 2005 Lawson was argueing for the abolition of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) based on a report by the UK House of Lords Economics Affairs committee (in which they made clear that they had no scientific expertise) and transferring its functions to economic institutions.

The book is an extension of his claim that environmentalism 'is profoundly hostile to capitalism and the market economy' and is neither 'news' or anything more than the reiteration of the Bush White House statement
'The American way of life is a blessed one . . . The President also believes that the American people's use of energy is a reflection of the strength of our economy, of the way of life that the American people have come to enjoy'

Don't you just love thread drift :)