The ultra laissez faire US Chamber of Commerce suffered a public relations blow of considerable proportion when one of its members, PG&E, a major California utility company announced it was leaving the organization. The climate denial propaganda issued by the self proclaimed 'voice of business' finally caused CEO Peter Darbee to issue a letter posted on his company's website saying he found it "dismaying that the Chamber neglects the indisputable fact that...the data on global warming are compelling". The Chamber went so far as to demand a public "trial" to debate the evidence that climate change is man-made. EPA demurred to the request saying its proposed findings that global warming poses a danger to public health is based on sound science. Ask the people who live in the Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives [satellite image] if climate change is fact or fiction. The sea level nation--the highest elevation is few meters above the ocean--will be some of the first atolls to be inundated when the estimated sea level changes occur. President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nashdeed, a former political prisoner, pleaded for action on climate change before the Climate Change Summit in New York, Tuesday. He told the assembly, "We cannot come out from Copenhagen as failures. We cannot make Copenhagen a pact for suicide." For anyone willing to look objectively as humanity's present situation, it is clear that our home planet can no longer afford unrestrained capitalism regardless of boucanier propaganda.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Chamber of Commerce Gas Chokes PG&E
The ultra laissez faire US Chamber of Commerce suffered a public relations blow of considerable proportion when one of its members, PG&E, a major California utility company announced it was leaving the organization. The climate denial propaganda issued by the self proclaimed 'voice of business' finally caused CEO Peter Darbee to issue a letter posted on his company's website saying he found it "dismaying that the Chamber neglects the indisputable fact that...the data on global warming are compelling". The Chamber went so far as to demand a public "trial" to debate the evidence that climate change is man-made. EPA demurred to the request saying its proposed findings that global warming poses a danger to public health is based on sound science. Ask the people who live in the Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives [satellite image] if climate change is fact or fiction. The sea level nation--the highest elevation is few meters above the ocean--will be some of the first atolls to be inundated when the estimated sea level changes occur. President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nashdeed, a former political prisoner, pleaded for action on climate change before the Climate Change Summit in New York, Tuesday. He told the assembly, "We cannot come out from Copenhagen as failures. We cannot make Copenhagen a pact for suicide." For anyone willing to look objectively as humanity's present situation, it is clear that our home planet can no longer afford unrestrained capitalism regardless of boucanier propaganda.