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  • The social 'cost' of carbon is a better life(WHAT? Blasphemer!)

    12/22/2016 7:15:18 AM PST · by rktman · 13 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 12/22/2016 | Viv Forbes
    Nothing better illustrates the stupidity and evil intent of green philosophy than their promotion of a mythical guestimate called the "social cost of carbon" (SCC). They use this bureaucratic weapon to demonize the fabulous fossil fuels that deliver food, heat, light, and power to the modern world. Let's consider life before coal, oil, and gas were harnessed. There was no steel, and there were no cars, tractors, trucks, trains, planes, or electric power. It was a world of sulkies, sailing boats, and sun-dried food. Hunters used bows and spears. Farmers used oxen and wooden ploughs and threshed grain with wooden...
  • CA: Pension funds pursue the green stuff - CalPERS and CalSTRS seek firms..ahead of..curve on trends

    03/28/2005 3:29:40 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 3 replies · 329+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 3/28/05 | Gilbert Chan
    California's largest public pension plans want investors to think green - as in money and the environment. And they want deep-pocket investors to think beyond feel-good investments such as power-generating solar and wind farms - to wireless sensors to monitor power usage in supermarkets, or to home water-treatment systems. Investors can make money by mining opportunities in emerging clean technology ventures, say officials at the influential California Public Employees' Retirement System and California State Teachers' Retirement System. Or, they say, they can eventually lose money by ignoring the future financial risks of greenhouse gas emissions. "We're trying to look at...