But the real purpose of seemingly hysterical global warming alarmism is to control you; not carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is only a means to the end of of taking control of you, by taking control of energy. Carbon credit sales are a mere sideshow, probably a ruse. Like collectivists used oil supply as an excuse to institutionalize ridiculously inefficient ethanol from corn, whatever its impact on food availability, anthropogenic carbon dioxide is now a sinister mantra, and an excuse, to take progressively greater control of you, by regulation of energy. No matter the economic paralysis which will result; and no matter how cold it gets.