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 [...]

(The New York Times)
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
The U.S. Senate can fight global warming by approving a bill to extend vital tax credits for renewable fuel sources like wind and solar power.

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.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/02/healthscience/cold.php

“To understand why Exxon Mobile is a worse environmental villain than other big oil companies, you need to know about how the science and politics of climate change have shifted….”
Paul Krugman: “Enemy of the Planet” (The New York Times)
Hey Mr. Raymond,
After helping Exxon lie to the public for years about climate change, how [...]

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 [...]