Corbin Hiar: Privatizing Climate Protection: A New Approach to Fighting Global Warming

The first day of the Major Economies Forum on Climate and Energy was a sobering attempt by governments to lower the expectations for coordinated climate action. The two-day meeting is bringing together climate negotiators from 17 nations that are responsible for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. "Clearly now the focus is on post-Cancun," the Indian environmental minister Jairam Ramesh said, referring to the year-end climate summit in Mexico. "We recognize that there is no breakthrough possible in Cancun but let's now try to cut our losses and see what we can do after Cancun," Ramesh said.

Business leaders were much more upbeat about the role the private sector can play in reducing climate change. At the kick-off to the business-sponsored Climate Week NY˚C, Barbara Kux of Siemens announced that "the technology to solve our climate problem is here. We just have to use it."

AD: ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’ to ‘Global Climate Disruption’ by J. D. Longstreet , 9/21/10

They thought that had us peons sold on Global Warming. Actually, they never did. Only the suck-ups to the liberal-socialists and their agenda ever supported the global warming hoax in public. Well, big business did, as well, but that was to cover their rear ends with the government and not because they actually believed it.

The Greenies were dumb-founded when they learned that we knuckle-draggers had just enough light left in our bulb to use the internet to determine that the polar bear population was on the increase and was no where near declining

Can Global Tourism Save the Planet? | Reuters

Monday, the Conde Nast Traveler magazine brought together executives in the hotel, airline and travel industries to explore those questions, at an event known, immodestly, as the World Savers Congress. (I half expected to see people in Superman and Batman costumes appear at the august Council on Foreign Relations in New York.) The half-day of conversation revolved around issues big (tourism as a force for peace in the Middle East!) and small (why do hotels put shampoo in millions of little plastic bottles?).
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Branson, whose demeanor is more low-key than his appearance might suggest, said that 85,000 commercial aircraft take off and land every day, contributing 3 to 4 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions; the airline industry, while not profitable, is nevertheless growing at a robust rate, and will continue to do so. "People have got to travel," he said.