Something New for Climate Doomsters to Fear: Political Backlash - Marlo Lewis

Global warming used to be such fun for eco-activists and their political allies when it was a stick they could use to beat George W. Bush. For years, the Left milked global warming as a political-theater platform for partisan attack, direct-mail fundraising, and endless moral posturing. But now that they’re running the show in Washington, D.C., climate doomsters know they’ll be blamed if their policies de-stimulate our ailing economy. On two key battlefronts, these vociferous advocates of urgent action are now proceeding with caution.

Climate change forecasts are useless for policymaking | By Kesten Green, J. Scott Armstrong, and Willie Soon

The models employed by James Hansen and the IPCC are not based on scientific forecasting principles. There is no empirical evidence that they provide long-term forecasts that are as accurate as forecasting that global average temperatures won’t change. Hansen’s, and the IPCC’s, forecasts, and the recommendations based on them, should be ignored.

It would be irresponsible and immoral of policymakers to impose the heavy burden of costly anti carbon-based-energy policies, in the absence of any credible evidence that those burdens will result in net benefits to man, beast or tree.

Israpundit » Blog Archive » U.S. Climate Action Partnership: By Their Works Shall Ye Know Them

The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) supports the imposition of greenhouse gas regulations, largely for self-serving reasons. General Electric, for example, cannot apparently manufacture cost-effective wind turbines and solar power generation systems, so it needs government mandates to force customers to buy them. Lehman Brothers meanwhile wanted to speculate in carbon emission credits, i.e. act as a non-value-adding middleman that profits from the exchange of the modern equivalent of medieval indulgences. It is no surprise that a company whose management cannot deliver anything of genuine value to society is no longer in business. Government welfare client AIG also was a USCAP member, and our opinion is that its membership in USCAP says a lot about the way it was managed.
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Finally, there’s General Electric, whose CEO Jeffrey Immelt these days spends as much time in Washington as Connecticut. GE makes all the solar equipment and wind turbines (at $2 million a pop) that utilities would have to buy under a climate regime. GE’s revenue from environmental products long ago passed the $10 billion mark, and it doesn’t take much “ecomagination” to see why Mr. Immelt is leading the pack of climate profiteers.

General Electric was once an innovative and productive company that relied on good engineering to sell its products. Its declining fortunes and revenues probably have something to do with its new business model that relies on government mandates to compel businesses to buy its products. As Aesop told us long ago, birds of a feather flock together, and the U.S. Climate Action Partnership is not the kind of company in which we would want any corporation that we owned to be seen.