Cap and Trade is not American Arrogance...the European Nation is also involved.

Everyone agrees that Cap and Trade will do little good without the participation of India and China.  The 'Cap and Traders' believe that the critics are dooming the world because of economical self interests.  They direct that belief at China, India and anyone else that disagrees with the need to stop carbon output.

The truth is that Climate Change is a multi-billion dollar, politically correct, international industry.  It is partly motivated by belief, but mostly money. 

The challenge with debating a belief is that facts won't change it.  Beliefs, like faiths, are not based on facts.  They stem from deep-seated emotions.  America, at least, has become a Nation of emotions.  Emotions are easier to manipulate than science, especially when there is a lack of understanding of science.

Throughout history, evolving man was controlled by beliefs.  When those beliefs were confronted by science, the science was deemed evil.

There is no argument that the earth has been worming since the end of the Little Ice Age.  The Little Ice Age was an anomaly caused by 5 volcanoes in a 10 year period.

The argument is whether or not man is responsible.

What is fact is that there has been no warming for the last decade and we are probably in a cooling trend (New York Times, 9/21/'09). That the rate of growth of greenhouse gasses has been diminishing for the last decade and in some cases turning negative (U.N. IPCC Report, Report 2, page 142).  Or the fact that CO2 has never been the cause of global warming, only an indicator (overlay the graphs and observe that our Earth's temp peaks before CO2's peak).

If our climate is changing without any legislation restricting man, then man's influence is not as great as natures.  Period.

Thinking that China, India and all the other dissenters are greedy or ignorant, that's arrogant.