Global Warming 4

I am currently reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming by Christopher Horner. It has the contemptuous tone of a rightist political screed, which makes for odious reading, but it is helpful in one respect--what it has in common with a theme of Geoff's: the fear of what Big Government will do once the issue gets traction in the public mind as a genuine "crisis." For Horner, Global Warming is just the best issue yet with which environmentalists and other leftists will try to leverage their way to greater government control over our lives (whether it's actually true or not). In a simultaneous debate about healthcare going on at my Unitarian church, I notice a similar theme in the conservative view expressed in that debate: The objective of the policy being debated doesn't matter; if the result of the policy would increase government involvement in or control over our lives in any way, then it must be strenuously resisted. This is an ideological consideration, and has no place in discussion about the nature, rate and causes of global warming itself. It may become relevant when it's time to consider government's appropriate role in the response to global warming, but I'm not up to that yet. For now, I must rule "out of court" any suggestions along the lines that, "We can't call Global Warming a 'crisis,' because that means government will do such-and-such, and that would be undesirable."