Ignore Global Warming Alarmists to Successfully Develop Alternative Energy

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with an alternative energy entrepreneur. I write that this was “interesting,” because he seemed to be a bright, competent individual. He is the kind of individual I want to see in an industry I believe to be vital to our nation’s future (as I stated back in April).

I also say interesting because as bright and competent as this man appeared, he was completely unaware that there is any intelligent disagreement (more links at the bottom of this post) with the belief in a man-made warming catastrophe, a la Al Gore. Further, he was as just as surprised to learn that there is a burgeoning recognition of the need for alternative energy based solely on national security and economic needs, with little or no concern for global warming.
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Have human’s influenced that change? Some people will respond yes, others no. For those that don’t think humans are influencing the climate there are other reasons for reducing the volume of carbon we pump into the atmosphere. Just take a look at the skyline of any major city on a hot summer morning during rush hour. That orange haze you see hanging over the city will be smog. If you think that it is okay to breathe that smog, the onus is on you to prove it.

Hey Red States, Get With the Freaking Program! : Red, Green, and Blue

“Hey Red States! What are you, wimps? We pounded you in November and now you’re too much of a sore-loser to get on board and try to save the world that you’re screwing up for your children? We’re crushing you in clean energy. I mean, we practically invented green business to create a profit motive for environmental protection JUST TO GET YOU INVOLVED, because we figure that’s all you care about. You stink! Look at those maps up there. You’re pathetic and weak. You’re letting a bunch of left coast sissies whoop you? I know spotted newts with stronger backbones and more comprehension for science than you all. You make me sick. Stop making excuses, be a freaking man, and get with the freaking PROGRAM, you turd-burgling cow-tippers!!”

[If this is what it takes, taunting you like a bully on a playground, to get your juvenile attention, than that is what I will do.]
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Scott Cooney is the author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill), and would like to also mention that when interviewing several hundred green business owners for the research for his book, he asked each one their political orientation. Not one right-winger. Not one.