End "Hysteria"

(Fox News) - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is calling for an end to what he calls global warming hysteria leading up to the G8 summit. "The topic is hysterical, overheated, and that is especially because of the media," he told a German newspaper.

Schmidt added there has always been climate change on earth — and says the reasons for that have been "inadequately researched for the time being." And he said that assuming global climate change can be altered by anything done at the G8 summit is — "idiotic."

Meanwhile, China says it will take economic growth over big changes to fight global warming any day. China says the consequences of inhibiting the economic growth of emerging countries would be far worse than the consequences of doing nothing to combat climate change.