The linc is an article with some interesting points.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB124286145192740987.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB124286145192740987.html
climate change, the business of
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You had to join the two pieces of the link together.Robinto said:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286145192740987.html
By BJORN LOMBORG
Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets.
The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the "military-industrial complex," cautioning that "the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." He worried that "there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties."
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I don't know the source material as I heard this during an interview with Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, but supposedly most or all of the companies that you can by carbon offsets from (the idea being that they use the money to do positive environmental work to offset what pollution you do) are partially owned by Al Gore.
Something I've seen Penn do as an experiment in people's gullibility was have people in the parking lots of grocery stores going over peoples purchases and telling them if they gave them x amount (in the 10 to 25 cent range) they would be carbon neutral. Not suprisingly a lot of people gave them the money.
Something I've seen Penn do as an experiment in people's gullibility was have people in the parking lots of grocery stores going over peoples purchases and telling them if they gave them x amount (in the 10 to 25 cent range) they would be carbon neutral. Not suprisingly a lot of people gave them the money.
...yeah, but an unavoidable one too. Cheap energy is going the way of the dodo bird, whether you or I like it or not. And without the cheap energy we've enjoyed only since the 1930s, all kinds of things about our world that we now take for granted will no longer be viable. Better to get ahead of the curve, and that's what energy taxes/cap and trade does.onthebottom said:
As a conservative, it hurts me to say it, but I'm totally behind this green wave of conservation. We could all rely on the market to 'shock' people into quick change somewhere down the line, but I prefer that the pols ease us all into a carbon-lite future.
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http://mediamatters.org/reports/200905050003binderman said:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200904040003
Anything owned by Rupert Murdoch is crap, how's that for a counter point?
