Executive Bonuses for Making the CO2 Cut | ClimateBiz

Xcel "believes strongly in providing long-term incentive opportunities that deliver awards upon the achievement of specific performance goals linked to the success of the company and its long-term strategy in the core utility business," said Xcel Spokeswoman Patti Nystuen. "These include financial and environmental goals."

Seventy-five percent of Xcel's award incentives have a performance-based vesting schedule based on earnings per share growth. The remaining 25 percent of Xcel's awarded incentives are performance-based, relating to their environmental strategy, such as decreases in emissions.

Slapstick Politics: More Than 650 Scientists Dissent over UN Global Warming Report

The studies cited should make it abundantly clear that the debate over global warming is far from finished. The topic of climate change is still filled with a great deal of uncertainty and deserves far more study before we commit to climate policies which could damage both our liberty and economy without giving any guarantee of helping our environment. In the meantime, we should be wary of what to believe on faith alone. Though waiting on the scientific method may be tedious, history shows us the disastrous consequences of putting our faith in the wrong place. The modern Islamic world gives us a very good picture of what dogmatic science can do to a society. More to the point, though, if we cannot trust our own government to manage even basic fiscal policy responsibly, why should we trust an organization of many governments to issue scientific findings by political decree on something as complex and uncertain as the climate? I should think the current financial crisis would be more than enough reason to keep them away from anything more complex than acknowledging that the sky is, indeed, blue.

Given this insane Stephen Chu quote, should the Department of Energy now be called the Department of Carbon Dioxide?

[Obama's Energy Secretary pick] In the end, it’s not about energy, it’s about carbon dioxide emissions.