Totally agree with you on that, jug.
I don't buy the CO2 climate change thing for a minute, I don't doubt the world is getting warmer, that can't be disputed, but I think there's maybe a larger force at work.
Didn't the earth go through an ice age thousands of years ago and then warmed up again, and before mankind, how many periods of this 'warming up' and 'cooling down' has this planet experienced?
I reckon it could be the Sun's gravitational pull varying very slightly and either pulling us in closer for a few 10s of thousands of years, or allowing us to orbit slightly further away and affecting the global temperature by a few degrees.
All I can see is there's a lot of taxes under the 'cloak' of 'global warming', and it's a nice convenient guilt trip for the powers that be to screw more money out of us.