>There are several big reasons why Europe's politicians, and career bureaucrats from all over the developed world, love to focus on climate change. First and fo

>There are several big reasons why Europe's politicians, and career bureaucrats from all over the developed world, love to focus on climate change. First and foremost, it's one of those problems that's hard to define. They even changed the name of the problem from "global warming" to "climate change" to further muddy those waters. In other words, any politician claiming that he's made a dent in the climate change problem is pretty hard to refute while any politician claiming her opponent has failed to make real climate change progress is similarly hard to debunk. Meanwhile, a growing number of career bureaucrats get to keep on "working" for environmental improvements with almost no accountability. Compared to the war on terror, which does demand more tangible results, this is a much more politically pliable issue. For the political class, this is a win/win in perpetuity. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/trump-threatens-the-failing-european-political-class-commentary.html http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/trump-threatens-the-failing-e...