Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Nevermind That Pesky Reality

Allianz, a global insurance company based in Germany, and WWF have teamed up to provide a ranking of G8 members performance on greenhouse gas emissions (here in PDF), which sounds like a useful thing to do. However, WWF doesn't believe in nuclear power as a matter of ideology, and therefore rather bizarrely refuses to acknowledge the presence of nuclear power as a matter of ontology.
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What did I learn from this report? Not much, other than the fact that anyone doing business with Allianz had better read the fine print.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Mexico 2010

In 2009 forget Copenhagen and in 2010 forget South Africa. It is Mexico 2010 where the action will be according to the latest expectations-lowering/setting from the Obama Administration, from Platts...

William Sammons: New GRU plant will be neither clean nor green | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL

The recently approved contract with a Boston company to build a costly wood incinerator electrical generation plant in Gainesville was sold to us as "clean and green." It is neither.
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The fact is, this "biomass" plant will spew almost twice as much CO2 as the proposed coal plant it replaces — an estimated 2 billion pounds of CO2 every year, 2 billion pounds that will accelerate global warming. The proponents argue that the trees burned in the plant will grow back, so the project is "carbon neutral."

Twitter / Jeff Garlick

If exhaust emissions cause global warming, what's the point of having a "Global Warming Isn't Cool" bumper sticker on your car? Saw one 2day

Charles Alexander, Former TIME editor: Heads Still in the Sand on Global Warming

Finally, I stood up to show myself as an enemy in the midst of this gathering. Revealing my former TIME connection, I said that "some of you probably used my cover stories as dart boards." I explained that people like Gore and Pelosi are very worried about the future of their children and grandchildren. I explained that the media didn't print "the facts" this group wanted to see because 90% of "the facts" this group has heard are part of a two-decade campaign of disinformation financed by the oil and coal industries. Manzi denied being financed by the oil and coal industries. But I can assure you that these industries helped create the ideological world that has nurtured his career.

That's what's so scary. These rich old white men live in their own isolated, ideological world. They watch Fox News. They read the Wall Street Journal editorial page. They read the output of conservative propaganda machines like the Manhattan Institute. They send e-mails to each other. They talk only to each other. They actually think they are right.

I guess they would say the same about enviros like me. But I came to hear what they had to say, and I found it very unconvincing. Will they ever realize that their ideology is a self-delusion used to justify their own selfishness? In my opinion, here's what their philosophy boils down to: Let me keep my riches now. Screw my children. Screw my grandchildren. If someday their grandchildren confront them about the effects of global warming, and they realize they have been wrong, I hope they feel really bad.