In Europe we have a 3 pronged approach to Global Warming.
First, we are going to verociously abide by toothless international treaties that are scheduled to last until 2010, by which time we hope to involve the US in some way in the next round of talks. Maybe they can help by funding one of those wonderful studies into global warming they like so much.
Secondly, we are going to send scientists to talk to those living in Africa because now that it's too late to do anything about it, we want to know how to survive in temperatures that will bring famine, plague and deserts to what's left of our continent.
Finally, we intend to assist our American cousins in guzzling as much gasoline as possible in the hope that the profits earned by the oil companies, the studies they so industriously produce (often by the dozen) and the subsequent research into alternative technologies they will fund, will save us all at the last minute.
You see the prevailing attitude of the average European is not that different from you guys.
Yes there's global warming, and yes it's bloody hot - but it's not my fault! I did my bit by converting to unleaded fuel and deciding not to use aerosole deodrants anymore. So what if the whole of Europe now enjoys a 3 hour siesta in the middle of winter? We're just going to lay here in our hammocks, waiting for the technology to arrive that will tell us, once and for all, exactly how deep the water is between our newly converted houseboats and that stuff called land we used to walk on.