A policy analyst with The Heritage Foundation says the American public is not buying into global warming.
According to Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst Ben Lieberman, cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate is gaining as much favor as the public option in the healthcare debate.
"Polling shows that the public does not buy global warming, [and] certainly doesn't buy it as a crisis justifying a blank check expensive response in the midst of a recession and ten percent unemployment," he states.
"And in fact," continues Lieberman, "a lot of the messaging and issue ads on the Kerry-Boxer Senate Climate Bill don't even mention global warming. They try to pass it off as a green energy jobs bill, which is very dubious."
Lieberman notes that calls to act immediately on so-called "climate change" legislation are probably in response to the fact that the public is wising up -- and if they wait too long, he says, they will not be able to push their agenda.