ever wonder where most of the anti global warming bunch get thier funding?
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/maps.php
What is interesting is the amount of lobbying from big business to support the enviromentalist agenda. Enron lobbied Gore and worked with green groups in support of the Kyoto Protocols. At the same time, Enron was buying up businesses that would provide these "renewable resources". the Pew Center said, "Enron Wind Corp. os one of the world's largest operators of wind-power generation" (assets now owned by GE). Enron also partly owned the worlds largest solar energy venture, along with Amoco (now BP).
You can read more about that in Robert Novaks article here:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2002/01/17/enrons_green_side
What is interesting is that Gore accused Bush of being in Enron's hip pocket on Earth Day 2002, saying Bush was pursuing "Enron's agenda". In fact Bush rejected Enron's agenda, but Gore, on the other hand, had ties to Enron through the Clinton administration and
was pushing the same agenda as Enron.
8/04/1997: President Clinton and VP Gore meet with Enron's Ken Lay and BP's John Browne to develop the administration position for the Kyoto negotiaions
July 1997: Clinton and Gore meet with Enron and other industry Big wigs regarding the shared administration/Enron case fr policy action on the theory of Manmade climate change
1997-1998: Clinton Admin. conducts and "outreach" campaign, employing cabinet officials to recruit further "responsible" industry and detailing the fortunes to be made from instituting the theory of Manmade climate change as government policy
Private meetings were held in the run-up to the finalization of the admin's negotiating position, between Enron employees John Palmisano and.or Mark Schroeder, and senior administration officials at the Dept. of Energy, State Dept. and EPA.
1998: a letter signed by Ken Lay is sent to Clinton, asking him, in essence, to harm the reputations and credibility of scientists who argued that global warming was an overblown issue.
Enron was hedging its bets and stood to profit from Kyoto's passage.
And interesting side note:
At one point, Enron commissioned its own internal study of global warming science. It turned out to be largely in agreement with the same scientists Enron was trying to shut up. After considering all of the inconsistencies in climate science, the report concluded: "[T]he very real possibility that the great climate alarm could be a false alarm. The anthropogenic [manmade] warming could well be less than thought and favorably distributed."One of Enron's major consultants in that study was NASA scientists James Hansen, who started the whole global warming mess in 1988 with his bombastic congressional testimony...True to its plan, Enron never made its own findings public, self-censoring them while it pleaded with the new Bush administration for a cap on carbon dioxide emissions that it could broker.
Here are a few articles on the Enron/Kyoto scam:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/16/135018.shtml
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-morris020802.shtml
http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/enron-clinton-and-the-environmentalists
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3388
Large utilities, and GE make up the vast majority of the wind power lobby. In fact, what is happening is many companies in the Big Energy group are investing in inefficient and even worthless alternative energies and technologies based on them, and then lobbying for those energies to be made mandatory. Even the car companies are getting in on the action with the CAFE standards (and the E-85 rules that are part of those standards), and the government mandates for ethanol.
Contrary to the distortion of the enviromental left, most of these businesses which are supposedly "working against global warming" are actually setting themselves up to profit greatly from the political fallout from this ruse.
