"What on earth do these doomsday "global warming" fanatics expect to gain? What is in it for the NYT and the rest of these losers?"
Michael's excellent response: The Environmental movement is the New Left in this country. It has become obvious to these communists and left-socialists that the American people are never going to voluntarily choose Communism, so their only hope is to gain control subversively - using, as their pretext phony environmental science. In this way, they can erode your freedoms, appropriate or make otherwise useless your private property, restrict your choice of purchases to only those goods deemed OK by Central Planning, control energy policy, expand taxation to confiscatory levels to "fund environmental goals and programs" (which includes welfare and other income redistribution schemes), and to gain power and control over the means of production of the US economy under the guise of protecting the environment.
I would add that the NY Slimes has been in bed with the Opecker Princes since the days of the first phoney oil crisis. I'm sure that the Opecker Princes have bought a lot of advertising in payment for the increased dependency on Opecker Oil thanks to the Slimes, the enviral whackos and Senators like Da$$hole who need the Slimes and envirals to be elected.
Kudos to Michael for his excellent response to your question and Scruffdog's ? re what does the NY Slimes get out of these lies and why do they lie!