Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Another idiotic NY Times editorial: If the climate hoax fails in California, the Chinese win

Editorial - The Brothers Koch and AB 32 - NYTimes.com
Now a well-financed coalition of right-wing ideologues, out-of-state oil and gas companies and climate-change skeptics is seeking to effectively kill that law with an initiative on the November state ballot. The money men include Charles and David Koch, the Kansas oil and gas billionaires who have played a prominent role in financing the Tea Party movement.
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The prospect that these rules could reduce gasoline consumption strikes terror into some energy companies.
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The Kochs and their allies are disastrously wrong about the science, which shows that man-made emissions are largely responsible for global warming, and wrong about the economics. AB 32’s many friends — led by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California — have therefore mounted a spirited counterattack in defense of the law.
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Who wins if this law is repudiated? The Koch brothers, maybe, but the biggest winners will be the Chinese, who are already moving briskly ahead in the clean technology race. And the losers? The people of California, surely. But the biggest loser will be the planet.

2 comments:

Bob Armstrong said...

Too bad comments are closed at the NYT . Amazing the arrogance of such a dangerous bunch of useful idiots .

Anonymous said...

In the word of the Skeptic, being accurate is being an idiot.