What about global warming?

     I have  watched the dialogue about global warming with a great deal of skepticism.  My skepticism arises from the solutions that people have put forward to correct it.
     The "science" of global warming (and the assignment of human activity as its cause) seems to rely upon a vote by a number of atmospheric "scientists" who also have strong connections to one of the "solutions" to the problem, to wit: institute a punishing tax upon Americans.
     This short-circuiting of the investigative process to determine if there even is any global warming and that it is connected to human activity is just too easy.
      Just suppose that it is eventually proven that the world is heating up and it is definitely our fault.  It seems that the correct approach would be a concerted  effort to define the mechanism of the process and then find ways to change our methods of power generation, transportation, home heating, etc. to reduce the offending chemicals. 
      Carbon is said to be the culprit in global warming.  Taxing Americans is too provincial to be effective.  The most flagrant offenders of carbon emmissions from electric power generation are China, India, and Russia.  Any comprehensive solution to this problem should include every country and should not be via taxation but through technology.  American coal-fired power plants are squeaky clean when compared to comparable plants in these other countries. 
      It seems that we could offer to sell our heat capturing and chemical scrubber technology to these other countries so that they could clean up their emissions. 
      Much still needs to be done to develop the underlying scientific knowledge about this.  So far, what passes for "knowledge" is filtered through a suffocating ideology and has very little or no credibility.