China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters that Trump's previous claims that the
country had created global
warming to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive simply couldn't be
true because other Republican presidents worked on climate negotiations.
Some of the main reasons why so many people seem to want the global
warming theory to be
true is that they both don't want the poorer
countries and people of the world to have abundant access to cheap energy in the form of coal, and oil etc..
In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global
warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global
warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global
warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich
countries to the wealthy in poor
countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come
true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.