“U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he applauds companies that have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over disagreement with the business group’s climate change policy,” Tom Doggett reports for Reuters.
“‘I think it’s wonderful,’ Chu told reporters at a solar energy event on the National Mall,” Doggett reports. “He said other companies should quit the group because the Chamber does not fully recognize the business possibilities in taking aggressive action on climate.”
“On Monday, Apple Inc. resigned from the chamber while last month three big power utilities, Exelon Corp, PG&E Corp and PNM Resources Inc, said they were leaving the chamber,” Doggett reports. “Other companies have criticized the chamber, which has pushed for public hearings to challenge the scientific evidence of man-made climate change.”
Doggett reports, “The chamber has said it favors ‘mainstream, common sense views’ on climate change but opposes a climate bill that the House of Representatives narrowly passed in June.”
Full article here.
The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal reports, “The head of the [U.S. Chamber of Commerce], however, renewed his criticism of the resignations, saying it was the victim of an organized campaign by environmentalists. He said Apple and others have misstated the chamber’s position. ‘It’s pretty clear because we’ve heard it from our own companies that a number of environmental groups are trying to apply some pressure on Chamber companies to apply pressure on us to change our views,’ Chamber President Thomas Donohue said at a press conference.”
Full article here.
“Other companies have criticized the chamber, which has pushed for public hearings to challenge the scientific evidence of man-made climate change.”
What are they challenging the scientific evidence with? Economic evidence? Legal evidence? What?
Personal, anecdotal evidence.
probably REAL evidence–rather than what the b#ll$h%t global warming scam posse tries to foist upon us. GW is a $cam folks
Glenbeckidence.
btw–if you’re so sure of the standing GW ‘evidence’–what’s the harm in having public hearings? Seems GW liars would have their platform. Pretty telling.
or ALGorythms..
M. You’re an idiot. You probably believe in Creationism, Homeopathy, and alien abductions.
The scientific evidence for human caused Global Warming is solid. Your Fox News/Google university education is an embarrassment.
M. You idiot. Science is not performed and analyzed by “public hearings.” It is done through a process of experimentation, peer review and publication. But your Fox News intellect is perhaps confused by real science.
GW is a scam. It’s nature. GWB was also a scam, he was not a natural conservative. Long live Glenn.
Yeah all those new islands that are being revealed as the ice melts off Greenland, they’re not real.
@ LeftCoast
Layoff the granola & petiole–go crawl back into that decrepit humanist/nihilistic hole you crawled out of..
I also applaud Apple for standing behind Steven Chu and 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama.
President Obama, Nobel laureate, is on a mission to bring man-made climate change to a halt. His leadership will hopefully inspire other countries to follow suit with their own campaigns to end global warming.
btw–if you’re so sure of the standing GW ‘evidence’–what’s the harm in having public hearings? Seems GW liars would have their platform. Pretty telling.
Wow. Just wow. This is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever read.
You don’t put science on trial for a jury to decide its outcome. That’s beyond ludicrous.
If we’re going to do that for climate change, let’s similarly do it for the theory of relativity, cell theory, germ theory, atomic theory, quantum theory, etc. LOL. I’d love to see quantum theory put on trial and see how well the lawyers and juries understand it. LOL!
but maybe they should wait to filate Obama AFTER he’s actually achieved something..just a thought
so we should just take the a few scientists word for it? How about the ones who are declaring it junk science? I guess they should be silenced because they don’t hold your political viewpoint? Science is ALL ABOUT challenging theory. Not accepting only what the media wants to have us believe..
Rob
Scopes trial.
@R2
Actually (and finally) President Obama is THE FIRST american president who IS INSPIRED by few countries who allready took measures concirning climat. President Obama is the first smart enough president to be aware of the problems most american wanted to williingly ignore and the first to act in the right direction. President Obama is the first american President who knows the depth of US delay and lag in many matters, and dares to share it publicly (risking his life because of dummy blinds who’d like to having rather dead!).
@M
I’ve chased down the credentials of some of those “scientists” who have declared GW junk science. They’ve been associated with big right-wing think tanks funded by big energy. In big red states. And those are the ones who are “the few”. The vast majority of real scientists line up on the side of GW. Now who’s trying to scam who?
@Rob,
Evolutionary science has already been put on trial. Fortunately, it’s won so far. When evolution loses, all the rest you mention will be next.
Welcome to the Fundamentalist Lunatic Right Wing Dark Ages, everyone.
Hey guy’s enough arguing the science, this is about cap and trade which does nothing except increase (tax) your energy costs. the issue is ‘if’ you are wholly concerned with GW then great, but how does making me pay more help?
There is no “Rock Solid Evidence” of Man Made GW or Man Made CC or what ever they are spinning it as now. Climate is always changing. It’s a big scam to tax you people to death and control your lives. My opinions have nothing to do with Beck or Limbaugh or Fox News either, so don’t even say it.
Obama. Nobel Prize?
Buhahahahaaaa, LOL!!!!!
Whatajoke.
“so we should just take the a few scientists word for it? How about the ones who are declaring it junk science?”
Here is a good list of the ‘few scientists’ that have found empirical evidence of global warming:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=“Global+Warming”++&hl=en&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en
These are not bloggers, or newspapers, or TV talking heads. These are real scientists writing for real scientific journals. There is more than enough evidence than any reasonable thoughtful person could ever need. The theory is well examined and has been studied by scientists from every angle.
If there are scientists that declare it to be ‘Junk Science’ they are not publishing their findings.
R2 writes, “President Obama, Nobel laureate, is on a mission to bring man-made climate change to a halt. His leadership will hopefully inspire other countries to follow suit with their own campaigns to end global warming.”
Oh, please! Put down that Kool-Aid. Nominations closed on Feb 1, while O was only sworn into office on January 20. Wow, those must have been 10 phenomenally productive days!. In truth, the Peace prize has always been political, reflecting policies the Norwegians favor at the moment. Kissinger and Arafat also won it. Obama won it just for being Obama and not George Bush.
As to ending global warming, the Waxman-Markey bill will do no such thing. It is a poorly constructed political document that will, over ten years, transfer a trillion dollars out of consumer pockets to favored interests and government coffers (to support increased spending). Most of the resulting CO-2 reductions will come from the resulting economic slowdown.
Even if Barack Obama is never actually able to succeed in his dreams, at least for now he has changed the world’s opinion about the U.S. and its goals.
I, for one, hope his dreams are the ones he spoke of in his campaign. . . . And I hope he is successful beyond all our dreams.
Whad’ya think Chrissy?
I think you’re all a buncha’ rubes.