“Anyone with real climate anxiety who can make a living outside of the Climate Industrial Complex should take up the Alex Epstein challenge….”
On social media, Greg Small, executive director of Climate Solutions, asked his followers:
…Ok folks, looking for some ideas. We are starting to plan out the Climate Solutions dinner for next May. This is our big annual event that typically has about 700 or so people attend.
We are thinking about who a great keynote speaker might be. In the past we have had folks like Gina McCarthy, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Bill Gates, Mindy Lubber, and Jigar Shah.
Who have you seen recently that lights things up and brings energy and excitement to a keynote speech.
Who do you want to hear from? Huge thanks for any ideas that you have.
“The anti-Big Oil political campaign, which harks back to 19th century’s ‘a right to do an independent business’ (Tarbell) against Standard Oil, is anti-consumer and pro-elitism…. Human betterment via economic and energy freedom is the moral imperative. Political capitalism (of which ‘Big Oil’ is also guilty) is the foe.”
The headline exclaims: “Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds.” The subtitle of the article by Dana Drugmand: “First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.”
Well, it is fundraising time for Inside Climate News. And no, this report, coming on top of many similar ones, presents nothing new. It is more of more of the same.…
Ed. Note: A Hall of Shame business memo turns 28 years old today. Dated December 12, 1997, it was written by Enron lobbyist John Palmisano in the afterglow of the Kyoto Protocol agreement.
“This agreement will be good for Enron stock!!” (-John Palmisano, Enron lobbyist)
Global green planners back in the 1990s were euphoric that somehow, someway, the world had embarked on an irreversible course of climate control (and thus industrial and land-use control). But the Kyoto Protocol predictably failed, and with the Paris climate accord of 2015 teetering (COP30), the momentum has shifted toward climate and energy realism.
Palmisano’s on-the-ground 1997 memo cites the benefits for first-mover ‘green’ Enron. Enron, in fact, had no less than six profit centers tied to pricing carbon dioxide (CO2)–and seven if CO2 were capped and traded.…