Climate Change’s Bottom Line

New York Times ^ | January 31, 2015 | By BURT HELM

[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 company’s 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. It’s 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 don’t 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 City’s former mayor.

Bit by bit, the Risky Business Project’s committee members hope to turn the tide, bringing Congress around to the way that a majority of Americans feels. “We’ve 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.

[ChicagahAl]

“We’ve made progress on things like civil rights, (anti-)smoking, gay marriage and other things that seemed impossible to move when business people joined the silent majority,”

I don't believe that the majority of the voting population supported any of those issues.

So-called "civil rights" was the biggest scam of the twentieth century. Today's practitioners seem to believe that civil rights give them the right to be uncivilized.

The anti-smoking laws were based on phony research. No legitimate study has ever shown second-hand smoke to be dangerous. They have now invented "third-hand smoke".

So-called "gay marriage" doesn't even have the support of all homosexuals, especially gay men. And a recent survey showed that the vast majority of bisexuals (who make up the majority of the LGBT population) are against same-sex marriage.

AGW is just another corrupt, follow-the-money, totalitarian scam.

But once the wealthy elitists decide to jump onboard; it's a done deal.

[justa-hairyape]

Billionaires wanting to freeze to death millions of poor people. That is what passes for altruism on Planet Ape

[justa-hairyape]

Not according to my heating bill. Last December was the highest yet in three years living in west Texas. Might have been mild elsewhere, but not here.