Joseph Bast, former president and CEO of The Heartland Institute on the "climate" agenda

"Back in 1993, we identified 'global warming' as the mother of all environmental scare tactics…..Groups on the left understood that if you can control energy, you can control human beings...If, in fact, the combustion of fossil fuels is having a dangerous impact on climate, you have a recipe for controlling all use of fossil fuels..that’s 80/90% of all the energy...if you can control that and shut it down, you can shut down the engines of the world."