The substantial argument has always been about the magnitude, though even then there arise questions about margins of error.
Lots of corps did this to fend off the looters.
I hear that if a concern troll decides to
he ends up feeling a bit better right off the bat.
All oil CEOs had to hide their true feelings and say things that helped their companies avoid persecution by Obama.
He will take whatever course TRUMP tells him to take..thats his job as Secretary of State...
Tillerson nonetheless disagrees with environmentalists’ views that fighting climate change means using less fossil fuels. Instead, Exxon looks at solutions like replacing coal with natural gas — which the company produces — and adapting to the effects of a changing world.
Keep in mind what the strategy may have been here. By a huge energy company embracing “alternative” and “renewable” energy sources, this kind of takes away the wind that the environmentalists hopes to direct their way. This is to head off future protests and defuse (or confuse) the small minority of shareholders that are the most vociferous in their demands that Exxon “does something” about climate change. Once Exxon takes charge of “alternative” and “renewable” energy, and applies their vast research capabilities to either actually find something that is economically feasible, or bury it so deeply the issue dies of old age, it is taken off the table for the time being.
Why would Exxon/Mobil oppose AGW? They make more money soaking the consumer for government-mandated super-greenie-tree-hugging-environmental-ethanol-infused-special-formulations of fuel than they would otherwise.
If your margin remains the same yet the product costs twice as much due to regulation, does that help or hurt the bottom line?
Don’t get too excited about the posturing before the poker game begins.
There may be an opening to get China and India to clean up their dirty coal.
You don’t need to believe in the fraud of AGW to understand that would be a good thing.
The leftists in the US have declared war on any means of energy production. The oil companies are just one of many moving targets. “Global warming/climate change” dogma of the left is the weapon of choice for them.
At the end of the day, all of this has absolutely nothing to do with “global warming/climate change”.
It has everything to do with leftists attempting to take total control of energy production in the US. THAT is their goal, nothing less.
If you control the energy production, you control the country.
Wow. This guy is sounding more like a real lemon each day.
The article is stupid and disingenuous. Exxon was facing the Obama Spanish Inquisition. Either repent or be put into the iron maiden.
Can ExxonMobil Be Found Liable for Misleading the Public on Climate Change?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/will-exxonmobil-have-to-pay-for-misleading-the-public-on-climate-change
Exxon Sues a Second Attorney General Off Climate Fraud Probehttps://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062016/exxon-sues-massachusetts-attorney-general-climate-change-fraud-investigation
Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html?_r=0
The part in bold is true. There's no question the current rise in CO2 is not natural. There are people who point to CO2 following warming: http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming-2/ice-core-graph/ which is definitely true. But the key fact is that the CO2 follows warming to the tune of about 10 ppm per 1 degree of warming. The charts in the link show about 100 ppm rise or fall for 10 degrees rise or fall. The current rise in CO2 is 120 ppm since the 1800's. That means in the past 800 years or so there should have been 12C rise in deep ocean temperatures to produce all that CO2. There was not so that theory fails.
Another explanation is increased volcanic activity. There was probably more recent volcanic activity in the 80's and 90's helping to create a little more CO2 along with temporary cooling from stratospheric SO2. But each major volcano amounted to 1/100 of man's CO2. Also it doesn't seem likely that volcanic activity suddenly increased coincidentally with CO2 when 20,000 years of Greenland ice cores with annual resolution shows no other such coincidence.
Finally, CO2 could be increasing due to algae reductions and deforestation. There is a fudge factor added to the "official" manmade CO2 source for deforestation. That is unfortunate since it clouds the measurements. The rest of manmade CO2 in the official manmade sources are more clear: fossil fuel burning and cement making. Those are well measured thanks to industry economic data.
Oh no that’s it Trump is algore with a tan! I should have known that talk about what a fake and fraud global warming it was just a show biz trick. mark Levin is right! PLEEEEEEZE!