Posted on 01/13/2009 11:02:34 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Treasury Department Can Help Fight Global Warming, Says Paulson Tuesday, January 13, 2009 By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Treasury and other finance ministries around the world should play a major role in fixing climate change, outgoing Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday at an event sponsored by the environmental group Resources For the Future. The discussion was titled, "How Markets Can Help Address Climate Change and Other Major Environmental Problems."
Paulson, who once served as chairman of the Nature Conservancy and co-chair of the environmental group Asia-Pacific Council, has long been involved in fighting global warming.
“I will be actually surprised and disappointed if the Office of Treasury isn’t a leader -- probably the leader -- in the government in terms of having more resources and knowledge than any other place,” said Paulson, referring to research on alternative energy and climate change.
“We need to play a major role going forward, and I think that other finance ministries around the world will need to play a major role,” he said. “Again, I see it as essential that finance ministries or departments of treasuries have people in place who understand not just the economics but also conservation and the environment.”
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certainly there is enough hot air coming out of them...
Moron Paulson.
Oh, Good Lord.
Is this the same jackass Paulsen that was a partner in ALgores carbon trade exchange company? THAT Paulsen??
They are going to print green money.
Please - someone stop the insanity. We’re heading for sub-zero temps in Battle Creek. Ahh, but I have heard that has been hitting 100 down there in Christchurch (their summer).
Yup...throw more money at it....lots of it. That will fix the climate, and make Gore and Kerry rich.
This is beyond absurd. I’m on a tax strike.
I told you over and over again.
Paulson is a ‘progressive’!!!
The real American government disappeared a long time ago — we are now in the grip of an incompetent and malfeasant mob of politicos who care NOTHING about this country and have no clue how to run it.
It is all about politics and POWER AND CONTROL.
Nothing else matters, as this absolute incompetent fool has shown us.
I can’t believe we are trusting this guy to make intelligent decisions about something so important.
He is a Goreon...
Biodegradable money?
What else do you expect from a Nutty Globalist Free Trader Liberal Socialist?
Global Warming is really Gloablist Whoring....
Though someone should tell Paulson that the US Mint money-printing machine cause a lot of Global Warming
Morons to the Right of me. Morons to the Left of me. We’re screwed!
What Global Warming?
that is as erroneous as his crying “wolf” to get the $700 billion to help out his buddies.
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