Global Warming

The Daily Dog had this post:

I think Mr. Makovsky is mis-reading the behavior of corporate America. Here's how I see it: In the social environment of the club and the cocktail party, business leaders are giving lip service to the crusade against global warming. But doubts run deep, and when faced with needing to make a commitment, the resolve isn't there. Look at the polling. With each passing year, fewer and fewer Americans are buying into the notion that global warming is a serious threat or that mankind is causing it. I think it's time for serious environmentalists to come to grips with the reality that there actually isn't a consensus about this after all.

What I believe is happening is that the environmental movement is sputtering and its moral authority is on the wane. They have given too much sway to global warming alarmists, who with each succeeding year of global cooling are gradually losing credibility. Part of the movement is charging ahead recklessly on its "fight global warming" crusade, wanting to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant, causing others on the train to consider more and more seriously if it is time to get off at the next convenient stop. After all, if fossil fuels all come from what were once life forms that obtained their carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, many wonder why simply putting that carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere should be considered such a catastrophe.

If the environmental movement could get it's voice back and stick to trying to eradicate true pollutants, there be fewer misgivings of corporate players about giving their wholehearted support. Too many are trying to equate "going green" with not using any energy, and there is a growing push-back from those who understand that it's energy that drives our economy.