Destination: Denial - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Six years from now, in other words, the meat of car-fleet sales will have to look like this: Toyota Prius hybrid, Ford Fusion Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Insight hybrid, Lexus HS250h hybrid, Nissan Altima Hybrid, Smart Fortwo Cabriolet, and Toyota Camry Hybrid.CNSNews.com - ‘Rent Seeking’ Green Corporations Would Benefit Most Under Cap-and-Trade
Think suburban dads and soccer moms will buy them? No way. Which means that — like European manufacturers currently in violation of EU goals — Obama’s standards down the road will face a head-on collision with reality.
In economics, “rent seeking” describes the process by which corporations, unions, trade groups, and individuals try to gain unfair advantages through politics and lobbying rather than through competitive trade in the free marketplace.Katrina Victims Can Sue Over Global Warming « Green Hell Blog
Going “Green” has proven to be one of the favorite ways by which corporations position themselves to benefit.
I can’t wait to hear the plaintiffs argument as to why U.S. CO2 emissions versus Chinese were the proximate cause of the damage..BBC's Panorama rapped over coal power station documentary - Telegraph
A BBC programme on coal fired power stations and global warming has been censured for using steam rising from cooling towers as an illustration of greenhouse gas emissions.Katrina Victims Have Standing To Sue Over Global Warming | Climate Skeptic
I would add that it will be interesting to see how oil companies will be held at fault rather than their customers who actually burned the oil and created the CO2.
It will also be interesting to see plaintiffs explain this graph of accumulated cyclone energy in the light of their theory that man-made global warming is increasing hurricane strengths and frequencies (ACE is a sort of integration of hurricane and tropical storm strengths over time).
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