Posted on 02/01/2015 6:08:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It was 8 degrees in Minneapolis on a recent January day, and out on Interstate 394, snow whipped against the windshields of drivers on their morning commutes. But inside the offices of Cargill, the food conglomerate, Greg Page, the companys executive chairman, felt compelled to talk about global warming.
Mr. Page is a member of the Risky Business Project, an unusual collection of business and policy leaders determined to prepare American companies for climate change. Its a prestigious club, counting a former senator, five former White House cabinet members, two former mayors and two billionaires in the group. The 10 men and women who serve on the governing committee dont agree on much. Some are Democrats, some Republicans.
Even when it comes to dealing with climate change, they have very different perspectives. Some advocate a national carbon tax, some want to mandate companies to disclose their climate risks.
The group is led by three men: Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire; Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs and the Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush; and Michael R. Bloomberg, New York Citys former mayor.
Bit by bit, the Risky Business Projects committee members hope to turn the tide, bringing Congress around to the way that a majority of Americans feels. Weve made progress on things like civil rights, smoking, gay marriage and other things that seemed impossible to move when businesspeople joined the silent majority, said Mr. Cisneros. Congress tends not to act until the broad mainstream, including business, is aboard.
And if business feels the pain in its wallet, it will feel the heat to act, even on the coldest of days.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why higher? Because in order to make, distribute, and consume this “no side effects” alternative an enormous investment must be made. That investment in manufacturing new fuels, distributing them, and building new devices that can use these new sources is enormous and must be paid.
Liberals have many many no side effects solutions. Obama even one ups your “no side effects” and claims the switch away from carbon creates wealth and jobs. He is correct and Algorilla and Tom Steyner are getting rich but at our expense.
It ain’t half over yet!
watermelons preying on the gullible.
How about "without first order side effects"? Obviously the things you say are true. But, the greedy politicians and see green opportunity--they don't care about carbon.
It is here in the Twilight Zone, Started much earlier...
Follow OUR money....more like it...
“Associate Degrees in black studies.”
Now where can all us rednecks go and git us one of them degrees? I reckon we could all git rich if we had us a degree like that. Can’t git that kinda education out behind the barn, that’s for shore.
Or, let me put it differently.
The rationale for the higher taxes is that they depress carbon usage by making carbon based fuels differentially more expensive. I’m saying that they don’t even pretend to design a tax that would focus on this—it’s just an excuse for expanded revenue collection.
The Carbon Lockbox would be every bit as secure as the Social Security Lockbox.
Yes.
I hope you’re wrong, but fear you’re right.
Now you’re cooking...with gas!
Btw, love that cartoon.
That's actually not necessary. Climate 'scientists', meteorological services, etc. know the grant issuing and administering bureaucrats EXPECT warming, so they massage the data (they call it "homogenizing"), mutter "double, double, toil and trouble" over the steaming cauldron, and- after adding a satisfactory quantity of hair of frog and eye of newt - VOILA! Warming has been tortured out of the raw data.
Skeptical analysts who have compared homogenized temperature records with raw historical data (when they can pry it loose from the CAGW crowd, which invariably tries their damnedest to keep it under lock and key), find that the homogenization process resulted in reducing historical temperature, creating warming trends invisible in the raw data.
That's actually not necessary. Climate 'scientists', meteorological services, etc. know the grant issuing and administering bureaucrats EXPECT warming, so they massage the data (they call it "homogenizing"), mutter "double, double, toil and trouble" over the steaming cauldron, and- after adding a satisfactory quantity of hair of frog and eye of newt - VOILA! Warming has been tortured out of the raw data.
Skeptical analysts who have compared homogenized temperature records with raw historical data (when they can pry it loose from the CAGW crowd, which invariably tries their damnedest to keep it under lock and key), find that the homogenization process resulted in reducing historical temperature, creating warming trends invisible in the raw data.
December was really warm compared to last year. Just saying.
Proof of Global Warming!
Sure it is remarkably cold this year but last year it was worse so the world is getting warmer.
Perhaps King "Canute" Obama can issue an executive order to the Sun...
To start making more sunspots
so we don't get another ice age
Did you forget the puke bucket warning?
Sounds like they derived their name from the 1980's Tom Cruise film which had prostitution as one of its plot lines!
I understand that they would reap the commissions on trading carbon credits on some exchange. If so, the old saying "Follow the money" is Spot On.
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