Climate Change Series - Climate Change or Climate Religion? With Gery Wagoner

Is the state of the environment really as apocalyptic as leaders like Al Gore are making it out to be? If so, will the current thrust towards "green living" actually solve the problem?
As of 2010, 31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs. Source: Global Warming Petition Project.
http://www.petitionproject.org/

Over thirty thousand scientists have signed a document stating that global warming is a ruse—that the environmental changes we see are not human-made. The petition states that in fact, the actions proposed in the Kyoto Accord, "would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology and damage the health and welfare of mankind"

Could it be that the environmental "crisis" is simply a scare tactic created to coerce people into giving up their rights and freedoms? What if the emphasis of caring for the earth eclipses the importance of individual human lives? Can it be that population reduction and control seems less like totalitarian Nazism and more like a viable and important safety measure?