Let's See, "Chicken Little" or "What Me Worry" on Environmental Systems Collapse (i.e. Global Warming)?

The auto industry is just littered with head-in-the-sand as opposed to head-on-the-spine thinkers it seems. Exxon have anything to do with this?

Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on "quasi-hysterical Europeans" and their "Chicken Little" attitudes to global warming.

His attack is in sharp contrast to the green image that the US car companies have been trying to promote at this year's Detroit motor show.

Mr Jolissaint was speaking at a private breakfast where the chief economists of the "Big Three" US car firms presented their forecasts for auto industry sales this year.

Most of the audience - which was mainly made up of parts suppliers - seemed to nod in agreement with Mr Jolissaint.

Neither Ford's chief economist Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, nor General Motors' chief economist Mustafa Mohatarem, who were on the panel with Mr Jolissaint, questioned his assertion.

This report from the Union of Concerned Scientist's tells all about Exxon's behind-the-scenes determination to quell systems collpase thinking. I've got it, let's sue Exxon for the premeditated murder of the planet, shall we?