Now Wall Street Is Calling for Climate Sanity. Don't Expect the Right to Listen.

[hazlnut]

Now Wall Street Is Calling for Climate Sanity. Don't Expect the Right to Listen.


I put this under politics because climate science and solutions stopped being about science and the environment a decade ago -- it's about politics and profit.

As we continue to develop alternative clean energies, coal and fossil fuel industries will suffer. Coal worker who don't learn a new trade will starve and go on welfare.

These are facts. In congress, both sides fight to control these facts to their own end. Dems in red states want to be 'soft' on the regulations, while GOP's in the blue state must appear all scientific and concerned. Meanwhile, both take money from anyone who gives it.

Knowing that conservatives will never listen to liberals—or to President Obama—on climate change, many well meaning, science-minded people have sought to identify other messengers who might possibly sway the right.

Accordingly, they've tried tapping evangelical Christians, former EPA administrators who served under Republican presidents, and celebrity politicians like the moderate Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's an astute, psychologically sound theory ("trusted messengers" and all that) and yet, it never seems to work. Why does it never work?

We'll get to that, but first, witness the latest attempt, which is aimed at swaying the business community. This weekend on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, two former treasury secretaries, Henry Paulson (a Republican) and Robert Rubin (a Democrat), went on the air to discuss climate change and, in particular, the new "Risky Business" report with which they're closely affiliated. The report, emerging from a partnership that also includes Michael Bloomberg and the environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer, makes the case that climate change will have dire economic costs. On the air, Paulson said point blank that climate inaction entails "radical risk taking." Rubin added that the risk is "catastrophic." Watch:

Maybe now that Wall Street is doing the books on the science there will be less money to give to the Inhoffes and the rest of the denier assholes.

 

[Yurt]

who is denying what? no one denies the climate changes hazlnut.

 

[Zander]

It's those damn deniers. Here is the ultimate denier.......

She refuses to cooperate! Despite all the alarmist rhetoric, the earth has not warmed in 17 years.

 

[jwoodie]

Now Wall Street Is Calling for Climate Sanity. Don't Expect the Right to Listen.


I put this under politics because climate science and solutions stopped being about science and the environment a decade ago -- it's about politics and profit.

As we continue to develop alternative clean energies, coal and fossil fuel industries will suffer. Coal worker who don't learn a new trade will starve and go on welfare.

These are facts. In congress, both sides fight to control these facts to their own end. Dems in red states want to be 'soft' on the regulations, while GOP's in the blue state must appear all scientific and concerned. Meanwhile, both take money from anyone who gives it.

Knowing that conservatives will never listen to liberals—or to President Obama—on climate change, many well meaning, science-minded people have sought to identify other messengers who might possibly sway the right.

Accordingly, they've tried tapping evangelical Christians, former EPA administrators who served under Republican presidents, and celebrity politicians like the moderate Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's an astute, psychologically sound theory ("trusted messengers" and all that) and yet, it never seems to work. Why does it never work?

We'll get to that, but first, witness the latest attempt, which is aimed at swaying the business community. This weekend on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, two former treasury secretaries, Henry Paulson (a Republican) and Robert Rubin (a Democrat), went on the air to discuss climate change and, in particular, the new "Risky Business" report with which they're closely affiliated. The report, emerging from a partnership that also includes Michael Bloomberg and the environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer, makes the case that climate change will have dire economic costs. On the air, Paulson said point blank that climate inaction entails "radical risk taking." Rubin added that the risk is "catastrophic." Watch:

Maybe now that Wall Street is doing the books on the science there will be less money to give to the Inhoffes and the rest of the denier assholes.

Thank you, Mother Jones. The fundraising ad was a nice touch. In case you haven't noticed, the same politicians who voted for carbon credits are now complaining about the effect it will have on energy prices. And morons like you keep electing them.