Beside the political hype from Al Gore, there was still some value in the Global Warming story: it implied ‘decroissance’, it implies ‘Sustainability, think globally, act locally’ as in: ‘keep your manufacturing jobs close, keep food production close, limit transportations as much as possible, don’t over-product, don’t waste, there is no point to manufacture your socks in china and consume 100 gallons of fuel to move them here, if you can make them at home’, and so on.

The idea of ‘decroissance’ and ‘sustainability’ was in the air in the 80-90s to back up the idea. I heard the concept in France. Of course ‘decroissance’ had to be also applied to the population: the population growth should never exceed the local ressources in energy and impact the well being of its inhabitant. France had always been less crowded than Germany for example. For a long time it was 40 millions versus 60-70 in Germany. Now its 70 millions in France, thanks largely to massive immigration. And therefore, Massive Immigration also does not make sense in a sustainable system.
By the way, for the first time in its history, this year, France had to IMPORT wheat . The experts appointed by the system will tell you it’s because of a drought, blablabla, It’s totally irrelevant in my opinion and it’s just an excuse. Think it couldn’t happen in America’s food production system? the central plains are too big? think again.

Now, nobody talks about Global warming anymore, perhaps because it implied all these concepts that went countercurrent to the wishes of the Elite, first of which was a massive import of population that was not needed. America will reach 350, 400 millions? Africa 2 billions ? and millions of what, under-educated, under-employed (at best) low class citizenry, overpopulated, with imported tropical diseases adapting to northerners latitude thanks to—..yes, global warming.
Global warming: yes, it may be smaller than the predicted models. But, it may also be difficult to measure because in a dynamic system like the Earth Ecosystem, you can’t expect LINEAR EFFECTS. Everything is buffered against abrupt changes. What you can expect is a series of hick ups that are clues that the system is entering into an instability regime. And then a massive change, without warning, when all buffered systems have been exhausted and collapse.

A quote from our past:
“—Though the climate gradually improved after the ice sheets reached their maximum extent around 20,000 years ago, the ice warrior made one more attack. The big freeze came with devastating speed. The first warning was a period in which the climate oscillated from warm to cold. Then in a single year, 12,679 years ago, northern Europe went from a temperate climate to glacial conditions. Once more Europeans were threatened with extinction, but managed to survive, though in some cases by ceasing to be Europeans—.”

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n8/abs/ngeo263.html