Paul Harvey, who annoys me more and more, used New York weather to take a cheap shot at Global Warming this morning. And then he went on to pimp his occular nutrition vitamins by sagely referring to scientific studies proving that it works.
He needs to be beaten to within an inch of his life with a clue by four. I'm just saying.
Exxon, a company for whom I have greater regard than most, does this same stuff. It's infuriating. Their competitors are building a future business model where Exxon is marginalized and Exxon is paying tobacco climatologists to tell Exxon what it wants to hear. As a shareholder, I need Exxon to be preparing for a future where the real and regulatory climates are different, and they're paying to have their head buried in sand.
Quotation of the Day for August 19, 2007
"At one point he said, 'Well, global warming can't be going on because we just had an ice storm here in April,'. I mean, can we review that global warming means that the upper atmosphere is warming, which is creating really weird and severe climate incidents -- like ice storms in Dallas in April?"
- Sister Patricia Daly, relating her conversation with David Henry, Investor Relations for ExxonMobil Corporation, in "Resolved: Public Corporations Shall Take Us Seriously," New York Times Magazine, August 12, 2007.
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Date: 2007-08-22 07:50 pm (UTC)He needs to be beaten to within an inch of his life with a clue by four. I'm just saying.
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Date: 2007-08-23 12:22 pm (UTC)I suppose he's a tobacco announcer.
This kind of shite really annoys me.
Exxon, a company for whom I have greater regard than most, does this same stuff. It's infuriating. Their competitors are building a future business model where Exxon is marginalized and Exxon is paying tobacco climatologists to tell Exxon what it wants to hear. As a shareholder, I need Exxon to be preparing for a future where the real and regulatory climates are different, and they're paying to have their head buried in sand.