The high cost of oil is driving the public and politicians to adopt policies that the environmentalist movement has opposed for the past 40 years.
Paul Kennedy is listing the multiple global reversals in reaction to global warming and even despite of it:

The major return of many governments to nuclear power - with dozens of new [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (International Herald Tribune)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
The belief that human population growth leads to hunger, shortages, and a ravaged environment resists evidence to the contrary

By Clive Thompson (The New York Times)
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy, runs one of the biggest U.S. producers of carbon emissions. He is also a committed environmentalist, but now he finds himself fighting a carbon cap bill he championed.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008
Trash can be a larger environmental problem: If it goes to a landfill to decompose, it releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas

By Andrew C. Revkin (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2008
Scientists caution people on both sides of the environmental argument to not focus on short-term weather patterns but to look at the big picture.
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In early October, Al Gore premiered his film, “An Inconvenient Truth” in Germany. While the film itself was very good and is clearly based on scientific facts, the premieres were badly attended and the film has not had such a large audience in Germany, one of the “greener” and more environmentally conscious countries in [...]