Tuesday, December 05, 2006

I guess this is old news, and I shouldn't be that interested in this, but I am, it blows my mind:

As reported by the WSJ on Monday, Sens Rockefeller and Snowe sent a letter to Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson and copied all board members that they needed to in essence "start toeing the Senators' line on climate change, or else..." Going on, the review of the letter by the WSJ stated that "But its essential point is that the two Senators believe global warming is a fact, and therefore all debate about the issue must stop." Mind you, this is an elected government official stating this to a private business. How much further can we go?

To end, I like this statement:

In recent decades environmentalists have been wrong about almsot every other apocalyptic claim they've made: global famine, overpopulation, natural resource exhaustion, the evils of pesticides, global cooling, and so on. Perhaps it is useful to have a few folks outside the "consensus" asking questions before we commit several trillion dollars to any problem.

Wait, we used to think that global cooling was a problem, now global warming? Which is it?

The letter can be found here (you need to scroll about halfway down to view).

1 comment:

Adam Nate said...

Of course global warming is a threat! Or, rather global cooling is the threat. Err, we’re at war with Eurasia, we’ve always been at war with Eurasia, and we’ve never been at war with Oceania.

Cheers!

PS You are hereby ORDERED to read (preferably out loud) this September 25, 2006 speech by Senator James Inhofe: http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759