The Lead Ostrich in the Conservative's Global Warming Exploratory Committee speaks up.
We do not face looming climate chaos. We have time to respond rationally and responsibly, evaluate competing claims, demand real science and evidence, devise sensible laws and policies, and develop new energy generation technologies that will meet growing demand for abundant, reliable, affordable electricity – while improving efficiency, reducing pollution, and protecting the health and economic vitality of families, companies and communities.
Let’s hope the march toward totalitarian government ends, wisdom prevails, and we again place our faith in American optimism, creativity, innovation and true social responsibility.
So, no regulation and over-reliance on business to solve Global Warming while simultaneously declaring it to be barely more than a fairy tale is the answer? It's not a partisan issue, it's a humanity issue and the last political grouping of individuals who should be in denial are ones with "conserve" in their name.
What happens when you leave global solutions to business?
The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming and undermine support for legislation to curb emission of greenhouse gases.
Data collated by a Brussels-based watchdog reveals that ExxonMobil has put money into projects that criticise the Kyoto treaty and question the findings of scientific groups. Environmental campaigners say Texas-based Exxon is trying to influence opinion-makers in Brussels because Europe - rather than the US - is the driving force for action on climate change.
Not all business is so dead set on denial. Must just be something in the water. pun intended
The insurance industry is paying attention to climate change and to increased storm activity, and that is translating into skyrocketing premiums from Hilton Head to Little River.
Premiums for single-family residences along the Grand Strand have seen 100 percent increases and condominiums have seen up to 700 percent increases, according to research by Al Parish, an economist at Charleston Southern University.
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While climate change and global warming have plenty of skeptics, said state Insurance Director Eleanor Kitzman, "the insurance industry believes in this issue and it is affecting the way they do business - which affects the citizens of South Carolina and the economy of this state and that gets my attention."
so... although there's no pending chaos, everyone's concerned but the conservative wonks?
The World Bank's former chief economist, Nicholas Stern, recently conducted a sweeping analysis of the economic risks of global climate change. His conclusion: Climate change is "the greatest market failure the world has seen" and, if unchecked, it could cause "economic upheaval on the scale of the 1930s Depression" at a greater cost than both world wars combined. British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Stern's report the most important document ever put before his government.
The Midwest will be examining its own special risks from climate change Thursday at a meeting of Midwest investors and business leaders at the University of Chicago Business School. The gathering is a cogent reminder that climate change is not just a coastal issue, but also a heartland issue, with potentially far-reaching consequences for the regional economy. So serious is the issue that 50 leading U.S. investors, including the Illinois State Board of Investment, have joined the $3.7 trillion Investor Network on Climate Risk to examine the financial implications of climate change and actions to reduce risks.
Spending advertising and media dollars to piss on Al Gore and others championing the rescue of the planet that sustains our lives seems like an awful waste when the same level of effort applied to trumpeting alternatives to our current lifestyles would move us so much further towards ensuring our collective longevity. Or... we could just sit back, whine and wait for the inevitable.