Feb
The dominoes are falling: ConocoPhillips, BP, Caterpillar to quit Climate Group
I was just an hour ago driving down the beautiful California Coast Highway with my friend, returning from lunch at the tiny beach town of Cayucos, when our conversation turned to Climategate. He said, “You know what really pisses me off? Those big oil companies like BP who back all this climate change bullshit.” Then, I get home and open up my Macbook and see an email from contributing author John O’Sullivan, saying I might be interested in an article. Bingo! The title of the Businessweek article is, “ConocoPhillips, BP, Caterpillar to Quit Climate Group.” Awesome.
Now that’s big news. Everyone seems to be catching on.
ConocoPhillips, BP Plc and Caterpillar Inc. won’t renew their memberships in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of companies and environmental groups seeking legislation to reduce greenhouse- gas emissions.
Proposals in the U.S. Congress “unfairly penalized” domestic refineries, ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva said today in a statement. The role of natural gas in lowering greenhouse-gas emissions has been ignored, he said.
“We believe greater attention and resources need to be dedicated to reversing these missed opportunities, and our actions today are part of that effort,” Mulva said.
ConocoPhillips, based in Houston, was the first U.S. oil producer to join the group in 2007. BP and Caterpillar, founding members of the group, said they want to focus on their own approaches to global warming.
The House approved a climate bill in June that would reduce emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The measure, endorsed by the Climate Action Partnership, has stalled in the Senate, as at least a dozen Democrats and Senate Republicans balked at the House approach.
We think the public relations offices of these companies should here from us. Let’s call to give them our thanks and words of encouragement. I’m sure the warming nuts have been given orders from their various environmental groups to call with threats of boycotts already. No time on my end to find the contact numbers and email addresses, so if anyone compiles them, please post it in the comments; then I’ll update this article with them.
Update:
ConocoPhillips: page for contacts emails, address and phone: here
BP Plc: here
Caterpillar Inc online contact page: here
Full story: ConocoPhillips, BP, Caterpillar to Quit Climate Group (Update4) – BusinessWeek.
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Sorry if anyone has already done this, but here is a list for contacts great news, lets hope others follow.
ConocoPhillips: page for contacts emails, address and phone:
http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/utilities/contact/Pages/index.aspx
BP Plc
http://www.bp.com/multipleimagesection.do?categoryId=9009861&contentId=7018696
Caterpillar Inc online contact page
http://www.uk.cat.com/contact
Obviously the pre Climategate Pro Forma Bottom Line does not look nearly as good after exposure.Once the Champions of “Green Earth” have been shown to pay lip service in the direction which the wind blows!Base motives have been revealed and it is time damage control.
OR Have I misunderstood the motives?
There have been numerous times in the geological past when the earth’s climate was much hotter or cooler not linked to burning hydrocarbons. In the Eocene there were temperate forests north of the Arctic Circle and tropical jungles far north of the tropics. According to NASA scientists the sea level has risen 120 metes in the past 12,000 yrs At times the rise in sea level was rapid, without CO2 to blame. We need hydrocarbon fuel; cheap electricity.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/
This keeps up they’re going to run out of “gates”
Now if we can just get the NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR and the other members of the MSM to acknowledge that the AGW bandwagon is crashing we’ll be getting somewhere to bring this B.S. to a well deserved death. I suppose too many people are counting on making a fortune on this nonsense to have AGW end quickly and cleanly. Maybe Obama could establish “death panels” to kill it off.
Pressure to be on the inside drove them in and now that pressure is abating. Being careful corporate types they back out of the door making nice sounds about pursuing other methods but the blow is struck. The USA of which I am a citizen would be insane to turn it’s back on the oil, natural gas, and coal resources with which this land is abundantly blessed. Conservation is good economics. Nature worship is bad economics.
If you create a petition to have Al Gore’s Nobel prize and Oscar taken away for fraud, I’ll sign.
John you have a good suggestion.Not only we will run out of “Gates”
but the original was nothing as serious as the ClimateGate is.To use the “Gates” terminology reduces the importance of what all these recent Gates are all about.They are immensely more important and destructive than the watergate ever was.Let us find a word that describes Climategate truly as catastrophic as it could have been if that public spirited soul had not shown the courage to publicise the evil machinations of the sinister fiends ready to do untold harm to Humankind for a few peanuts.
Whooo hooo!!! So much is going on, this is really exciting. Too bad the media hasn’t noticed. But they have more important things to report, like movie director Kevin Smith getting the boot off an airplane. You know, those real hard-hitting issues that affect us all.
[...] varias empresas (incluida BP) han decidido abandonar el US Climate Action Partnership. “Creemos que necesitamos dedicar mayor atención y recursos a [...]
With 85% of the world’s energy from fossil fuels, cutting carbon is like asking for economic trouble. If alternative energy were affordable more people might have converted to it. One of the reasons the rate of the rise in sea level has slowed is because there is less ice on the planet than there was at the peak of the Late Pleistocene Ice Age 20,000 years ago. The government has not proven they can lower the temperature of the earth a single degree, but they intend to raise some taxes and spend more than they can tax. China burns almost twice as much coal as the US and have been buying US company stock with their spare change.