Saturday, February 02, 2008

Did Accenture really make this puzzling claim?

Excerpt from this article:
CORPORATE PROFITS will plummet unless businesses take urgent steps to deal with the threats from climate change - that's the message from a new report by consultants Accenture.
Specifically what threats? Specifically what urgent steps? Why, exactly, would profits "plummet"?

Is someone suggesting that businesses can do actually do anything that will have a measureable, predictable effect on year 2013 global temperatures?

Mark Spelman of Accenture is quoted as one of the authors of this report. Note that Spelman wrote this 2/11/07 article on the global economy, which doesn't mention climate change at all. Since then, global temperature hasn't risen. So why is climate change so important now?

Is this the same Accenture report referenced in this article, entitled "Big business says addressing climate change 'rates very low on agenda'"?

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