Scott Pelley of CBS News is, in his own words, just “a simple, average American reporter”.
He is best known for having made plain his distaste for including “skeptical” opinions in his rigidly alarmist reportage on global warming, likening them to Holocaust deniers.
And interviewing such vermin would, after all, be beneath him.
I understand he just flew to Tehran. Anyone know what for?
I mean, there are Holocaust deniers and then there are those whom one likens to them. Ew.
Just saying.
If you happen to catch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech to the UN on climate change today, please remember that the governator is full of it. Once again, the movie star turned politician will tell a crowd of policy-makers that fixing the climate will be a boon to the economy. It’s not, and he knows it.
Unfortunately, his false promises are catching on. Republican governors Charlie Crist (FL) and Tim Pawlenty (MN) have echoed Schwarzenegger’s claims. And in today’s Financial Times, Bill Clinton spoke of climate change mitigation policy and said, “there is way more economic opportunity than cost here.”
There isn’t. The fact of the matter is that energy use is causally linked with economic production, and emissions are the byproduct of energy use. Therefore, if you curb emissions, you necessarily curb economic productivity. That's why independent studies estimate reducing emissions would cost the US economy almost 2 trillion dollars.
We can reduce emissions, by developing non-fossil fuel energy sources. But it will be expensive. By distorting the truth about the costs of reducing emissions, Schwarzenegger creates unfounded expectations.
Would you believe that the weather in Indiana could trigger popular unrest in China? Global demand for fuel made out of food is growing so fast that grain supplies are becoming dangerously thin. In this market, a hiccup in agricultural production — like a drought in America’s Corn Belt — could cause food prices to skyrocket in countries like China that depend on food imports. When poor urbanites in developing nations suddenly cannot afford to eat, they just might take to the streets in anger.
Amid a mounting sense of urgency about the need for action to slow climate change, President Bush this week will be playing what is, for him, an unusually prominent role in high-level diplomatic meetings on how to confront global warming.
The White House yesterday announced the agenda for a climate change conference next week, but firmly rejected calls from European countries and some environmentalists that the United States agree to fixed emissions standards.
Talks on global warming in the United States next week may be complicated by differences among developing countries as their climate policy positions diverge.
The significant problems that might be caused by global warming are indisputable; all the major figures in climate economics agree. Yet they also, with the exception of Sir Nicholas, agree that drastic action now would be even more costly.
The chairman of the U.S. Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency administrator saying the EPA erred in approving a new coal-fired power plant in Utah three weeks ago.
Two environmental groups are suing the federal government, contending that the Conservatives failed to comply with legislation meant to force their hand to meet Kyoto Protocol targets.
Climate change may lead to lush growth rather than catastrophic tree loss in the Amazonian forests, researchers from the US and Brazil have found.
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