text: Some 2 billion people in poor nations in Asia, Latin America and Africa live on less than $2 a day, and those nations will house most of the additional 1.3 billion people arriving by 2020. So it is obvious that we desperately should be expanding, not constricting, the world?s economy and energy supplies. Global warming may or may not be an impending crisis. The contribution of human activity to climate change may or may not be a significant factor. Before we pare back economic growth in Europe, Japan, the Pacific Rim nations and the United States, and thus curtail the export hopes of emerging nations, we need to make judgments based on real science. Lumping together the conflicting worst-case-scenario computer simulations cited in the report by the UN Panel on Climate Change does not constitute science. Rather it seems to be based more on ideological wishful thinking.