Despite the fact that there has not been one peer-reviewed scientific article published that argues against climate change, despite that fact that 2006 was the hottest year on record, despite all the other tell-tale signs and global acceptance that climate change is upon us and that we need to address it, US car-maker Chrysler comes out with this…

“Quasi-hysterical Europeans” and their “Chicken Little” attitudes to global warming.

The fierce attack of words comes from Chrysler’s chief economist Van Jolissaint who was addressing a meeting of economists and parts suppliers representing Chrysler, Ford and GM (the ‘big three’), and continued to say…

“global warming was a far-off risk whose magnitude was uncertain”.

He said that from an economic point of view, it would be more rational to spend lots of money on today’s other big problems, and only make small and limited changes in policies relating to global warming, such as a slight increase in gasoline or carbon taxes.

Mr Jolissaint was particularly scathing about the Stern Report, which was recently published by the UK government. He said the report was based on dubious economics, did not include a discount rate, and was written by an informal adviser to Gordon Brown - in fact, at the time of the report, Mr Stern was the Second Permanent Secretary at the UK Treasury.

Observers have commented that although the US car industry appears to be developing ‘greener’ vehicles, this may be nothing more than window dressing as the very same companies predict a drop in the price of oil later this year and expect demand for larger ‘gas guzzlers’ to actually increase.

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