Monday, August 09, 2010

Green Corruption: The Plot Thickens - Blogcritics Politics
As written by Troxler and Brown in their book Killing Wealth, Freeing Wealth, around 2005 Kleiner Perkins had initially invested $100 million into “green” and announced publicly that they would “advocate for policies that reduce the climate crisis and increase energy innovation.” Yet, “within hours of Obama’s victory –– a candidate that both Gore and Doerr had strenuously campaigned for, including financial donations –– Kleiner Perkins had upped their investment in forty-eight clean-energy-technology companies to the tune of nearly $2 billion.”
BBC says sorry to Climategate unit for grilling by John Humphrys | Mail Online
Corporation chiefs said the host of the Radio 4 flagship programme should not have accused researchers at the University of East Anglia of ‘distorting the debate about global warming to make the threat seem even more serious than they believed it to be’.
Browner: Energy bill success still possible before end of the year - The Hill's E2-Wire
Asked if Democrats could potentially get it done in a lame-duck session, Browner responded, "Potentially."
Rep. Pence: 'Outrageous' that Dems still want to push climate bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
The House Republican Conference Chairman has been one of the strongest GOP critics of the energy legislation trumpeted by the Obama administration. He has previously called the bill "an economic declaration of war on the Midwest."

Browner's comments are likely to add plenty of fuel to the fire of conservative activists who have suggested Democrats will push through unpopular legislation in this year's lame duck session of Congress.
Climate Control is futile.  Be prepared or be sorry.
It’s time to stop wasting money trying to control the climate – this will be no more successful than slaughtering sacrificial goats, even if tax payers and electricity consumers are to be the goats.

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