==History==
Although alleged climate scientists claim the theory of global warming dates from the 19th century, it gained its modern impetus among the [[socialist]] [[totalitarian]] [[Left]] in the 1980s. Unable to compete economically with [[The West]] and [[President Ronald Reagan]]'s defense modernization program, which ultimately banktupted the [[Soviet Union]], anti-capitalists in the United States and Europe began attacking the booming auto manufacturing, oil drilling and refining industries as responsible for destruction of the planet. This [[leftwing]] socialist sentiment was taught in schools and universities, were where faculty salaries are dependent on [[statist]] largesse. The Soviet [[KGB]], known for its [[propaganda]] campaigns such as the [[AIDS]] virus invented by the [[Pentagon]], mounted one last ditch effort to save [[communism]] and fight [[capitalism]].
In a limited way the communists were successful; the global warming scare was a factor in the de-industrialization and transfer of Western factories to the [[Third World|developing world]] where environmental and labor laws were much less strict. The [[free trade]] movement and [[globalization]] was partly justified by the politization of science and global warming.