Climate change and left-wing politics

Malta is to fork out millions of euros a year towards an EU fund aimed at helping developing countries fight climate change, but isn't the island considered a developing nation by the EU, UN and the Framework Convention on Climate Change?

Apart from this, shouldn't we think twice before we commit to more restrictions to curb the supposedly planet-threatening menace of runaway global warming?

Because if CO2 is the main cause of this warming, why is it that global temperature has stopped rising - and has even shown a downward trend - since 1998, while CO2 content in the atmosphere has been rising steadily? Doesn't this indicate that something other than CO2 is responsible for the warming that was observed at the end of the previous century? And is this something to do with natural cycles, of the sun primarily?

CO2 is a natural by-product of the process called living... humans are carbon based. There is not one scientific study which shows unequivocally a connection between world temperature and CO2.

CO2 levels are largely a function of the oceans and the levels are currently elevated, while at the same time world temperatures have been dropping since 1998. Even the IPCC forecasts cooler temperatures for up to the next 50 years. So, all the billions spent so far have done nothing to affect the climate of the earth, however this has been (and will be more so with an eventual Kyoto 2) effective in shifting wealth and creating more bureaucrats living off public money, which at the end of the day is what left-wing politics is all about.

If readers want to know more, they might like to also consult my impressions at http://enricomizzi.blogspot.com/ .