big business joins greens on global warming

An unprecedented coalition of blue-chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10-30 per cent over 15 years.

The group, called the US Climate Action Partnership, will unveil the details of its plan on the eve of President Bush's State of the Union speech on Tuesday. The companies involved include some of the old-fashioned pollution-generating industries normally associated with anti-environmental policies and politicians - the chemical giant DuPont, the bulldozer company Caterpillar, the aluminium producer Alcoa and the US subsidiary of BP.

The age of global warming denial, meanwhile, also appears to be drawing to a close. Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, has cut its funding to groups who argue global warming is a hoax, and is now working to develop strategies it can accept for emissions reduction.

That's a huge change from just a few months ago, when Exxon Mobil's chief executive, Lee Raymond, arguably the world's most prominent global warming sceptic, was still at the helm, and the Senate Energy Committee was headed by the Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, who made it his business to dismiss scientific opinion on climate change as a conspiracy.

The biggest hold-out against radical policy change is probably the Bush White House. Aides to the President have indicated his State of the Union speech will include some provisions on energy, notably championing the use of ethanol-based fuels. The administration remains opposed, however, to any mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2169176.ece

 

this is good news. unfortunately, the president has a problem when it comes to addressing issues in the realm of reality. we will have to wait for a new administration before situations like iraq and warming are taken seriously. we're in for another year of unchecked melting and senseless bloodshed folks...

 

cool I'm so glad everyone is finally waking up about this issue.... Peace love care wisdom action through the wisdom with the care on the love to create peace.

 

The people, organisations and web-sites which are associated with ExxonMobile are being documented:

• http://www.exxposeexxon.com/
• http://www.exxonsecrets.org/
• http://www.desmogblog.com/directory (some helpful listings too )

 

Go figure. Most of the money the phony environmental movement receives comes from big-business and big-oil. The environmental movement is a MULTI-BILLION dollar a year industry, and you can bet damn well most of that money doesn't come from your average contributors. Perhaps some of you should go back and look at history to see who founded the environmental movement, then ask yourself if it's because they really care about the environment, or have another agenda. Most people don't understand the environmental movement is a complete fraud. Yet, people will attack me for saying this without doing any of their own research into the subject.