Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Exxon flips on carbon
Regular readers may remember that more than a month ago I complained that Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe were essentially threatening Exxon into changing its position on climate change, which I argued was intimidation of precisely the sort that drives the left wild in other contexts. Well, the threat seems to have worked. Exxon has apparently decided that global warming is real after all, and will now dedicate its lobbying efforts to spreading the regulatory pain rather than arguing against the phenomenon.
Being no fan of emitting more carbon than necessary, I am happy about the result. I remain outraged by the means by which it was obtained.
CWCID: Our regular commenter, the Lanky Bastard.
3 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Tue Jan 16, 02:12:00 PM:
Oil obviously is a tough business. Raymond Chandler was an oil company executive before he began to write hard-boiled detective stories.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Tue Jan 16, 06:53:00 PM:
I recently reviewed Ruddimans' Plows, Plagues, & Petroleum, which suggests that anthropogenic warming has been going on for 8,000 years. He believes it has been mostly a positive thing, though he worries about the speed of recent (geologically recent: 200 years) warming. He advocates slowing the use of fossil fuels, but considers warming less of a problem that fresh water and topsoil. Very interesting book from a professor of Environmental Science at UVA. (Wake up there, Charlottesvillain).
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2007/01/plows-plagues-petroleum.html
By 
, at
Tue Jan 16, 11:31:00 PM:
ASgain a wealthy socialist like ROCKIFELLER is most interested in controling our lives just like any leftists scum and now their intimadating the tiger
