Monday, January 22, 2007
Should local mayors join Mayors Climate Campaign?
Is it time for Yelm and Rainier's Mayors to join 369+ mayors in the Mayors Climate Campaign 2007? Will they join Seattle's Mayor Greg Nickels and pledge to take meaningful steps to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that are disrupting weather patterns on the planet.
Nickels says they've got the Republican mayors of Arlington, Texas, Akron and San Diego. Big cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and little ones like Shishmaref, Alaska (population 562), Sykesville, Maryland (4,197) and Huron (11,086).
Some major industry groups like the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufactures continue to oppose so-called 'cap and trade' proposals to cut climate changing pollution, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
It's no wonder you're confused!
ABC reported that since 2000 ExxonMobil pumped more than $19 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe using tobacco like disinformation campaigns.
Organizations that have supported novelist Michael Crichton who inspired President Bush to doubt global warming.
But now, 10 executives, representing major utilities, aluminum and chemical companies and financial institutions, said mandatory reductions are needed and that "the cornerstone of this approach" should be a cap-and-trade system. The officials include the chief executives of Alcoa Inc., PB America Inc., DuPont Co., Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co., Duke Energy Corp, Lehman Brothers, PG&E Corp., PNM Resources, FPL Group and four leading environmental organizations. Big corporations like Wal-Mart, Dupont and GE say saving energy is saving them billions.
It's past time. Let's lead. Let's do it.
Nickels says they've got the Republican mayors of Arlington, Texas, Akron and San Diego. Big cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and little ones like Shishmaref, Alaska (population 562), Sykesville, Maryland (4,197) and Huron (11,086).
Some major industry groups like the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufactures continue to oppose so-called 'cap and trade' proposals to cut climate changing pollution, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
It's no wonder you're confused!
ABC reported that since 2000 ExxonMobil pumped more than $19 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe using tobacco like disinformation campaigns.
Organizations that have supported novelist Michael Crichton who inspired President Bush to doubt global warming.
But now, 10 executives, representing major utilities, aluminum and chemical companies and financial institutions, said mandatory reductions are needed and that "the cornerstone of this approach" should be a cap-and-trade system. The officials include the chief executives of Alcoa Inc., PB America Inc., DuPont Co., Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co., Duke Energy Corp, Lehman Brothers, PG&E Corp., PNM Resources, FPL Group and four leading environmental organizations. Big corporations like Wal-Mart, Dupont and GE say saving energy is saving them billions.
It's past time. Let's lead. Let's do it.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 7:18 PM 
