Little Green Men and their ‘Indispensible’ Big Green Lobbyists

Today E&E News reports (subscription required) green group faux-rage that industry reps were consulted on drafting an amendment by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to (IMO, rather unwisely) grant the Democrats a one-year reprieve from their looming political nightmare of EPA threatening to actually try and regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources by regulation under a Clean Air Act never designed for such foolishness.

Such unseemly whimpering is about as credible as the greens’ phony “hacked emails!” outrage, over what was from all appearances a whistleblower releasing “ClimateGate” email evidence of dirty green tricks. These are the same crowd whose slimy green tactics include stealing my trash on a weekly basis and working with, e.g., the Guardian to dishonestly cobble together unrelated, out-of-context (unlike ClimateGate) excerpts from emails to paint a false picture. (”Greens involved in journalism process!”; sadly, the Guardian never called me for their “story” about, well, me, so I must confess I wasn’t involved).

Specifically, E&E notes how:

“the Washington Post reported yesterday that [Bracewell & Giuliani's Jeff Holmstead] and another former EPA official, Roger Martella, ‘helped craft the original amendment Murkowski planned to offer on the floor last fall.’…

Environmentalists pounced on the reports as evidence that coal and oil interests are behind Murkowski’s efforts. ‘We now have proof that lobbyists for Big Oil, dirty coal and other special interests are directly involved in recent attempts to bail out big polluters and gut the Clean Air Act,’ said a Sierra Club press release. ‘What’s more, these big polluter lobbyists are the same former Bush administration officials who completely disregarded the Clean Air Act and even disobeyed the Supreme Court for years.’

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Tags: alcoa, Big Business, Big Green, clean air act, climategate
Posted Jan 12th 2010 at 10:37 am in Congress, Environment, News, Politics | 5873823 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2010/01/12/little-green-men-and-their-indispensible-big-green-lobbyists/Little+Green+Men+and+their+%27Indispensible%27+Big+Green+Lobbyists2010-01-12+18%3A37%3A29Christopher+C.+Horner

Climate Deal: Strike Two For Obama in Copenhagen

From the Associated Press:

President Barack Obama declared Friday a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” had been reached among the U.S., China and three other countries on a global effort to curb climate change but said much work was still be needed to reach a legally binding treaty.

“It is going to be very hard, and it’s going to take some time,” he said near the conclusion of a 193-nation global warming summit. “We have come a long way, but we have much further to go.”

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Tags: Big Green, binding emission caps, climate change, climate emails, climategate
Posted Dec 18th 2009 at 4:13 pm in Environment, Obama | 49434127 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/12/18/climate-deal-reached-sort-of/Climate+Deal%3A+Strike+Two+For+Obama+in+Copenhagen2009-12-19+00%3A13%3A07Publius

“Cities Are Probably the Greenest Thing That Humans Do.”

A few years ago, environmental guru, Merry Prankster, and Whole Earth Catalog author Stewart Brand caused a minor stir with an article he wrote in the MIT publication, Technology Review.  Brand, who was an early advocate of the “back to the land” movement of the 1960s and 1970s, had done some re-thinking, and he concluded that environmentalist opposition to things like urbanization, population growth, biotechnology, and nuclear power generation, was wrong and needed to change.

Now, Brand has written a new book, called Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, in which he takes on these environmental shibboleths in a more concerted fashion.  On American Public Radio’s Marketplace program yesterday, host Kai Ryssdal discussed the new book with Brand.  Asked what prompted him to write the book, Brand said that,

“My fellow environmentalists have been wrong about a couple of issues and were getting in the way of important things we should be doing, both with biotechnology and with nuclear technology, and in terms of how we think about cities, and in terms of how I know we’re going to think about geoengineering–that is, direct intervention in the climate.”

 

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Tags: Big Green, biotechnology, environmentalism, frankenfoods, Kai Ryssdal
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 12:30 pm in Culture, Environment | 2143420 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/gconko/2009/10/27/cities-are-probably-the-greenest-thing-that-humans-do/%22Cities+Are+Probably+the+Greenest+Thing+That+Humans+Do.%222009-10-27+19%3A30%3A32Gregory++Conko

First They Came For the “Climate Criminals”…

I have had the pleasure of Greenpeace taking my trash every Sunday night after I put it out — the contents winding up in staged “stories” in outlets like Deutsche Welle, the Independent, El Pais and Old Red herself, the Guardian, whose reporters never even called before cobbling unrelated offal together to spin their yarn. Not content to address the issues when old fashioned (if lame) intimidation efforts were handy, the green machine have also labored over breathless press releases announcing with whom they’ve seen me dine, and plastered the walls and leafleted Kyoto negotiating conferences with my mug as a “climate criminal”. As I detailed in Red Hot Lies, that’s child’s play compared with the death threats and attempts on scientists’ lives when they dare push back against The New Red that is Big Green.

So naturally, when I see an email touting a “tribunal”, in Spanish though it may have been, I look closer. Courtesy of a translating software and a little cleanup work, here’s today’s missive from Friends of the Earth International. When reading it, recall how the International Criminal Court was hailed by academics and even our then-president as an environmental treaty. Recall how we are poised to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty which despite its name purports to regulate land-based sources such as transport and electricity generation, just like Kyoto except that it has its own court, one that has already shown its willingness to go rogue and set its jurisdiction ad hoc.

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Tags: Big Green, climate change, Evo Morales, Friends of the Earth, global warming
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 9:15 am in Culture, Environment, Justice/Legal, Politics | 1626261 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/10/14/first-they-came-for-the-climate-criminals/First+They+Came+For+the+%22Climate+Criminals%22...2009-10-14+16%3A15%3A17Christopher+C.+Horner

Obama’s EPA: In a Classroom Near You

Pavlik Morozov’s life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers. Although his story didn’t end well (nor did that of his parents), the concept for which he will ever carry the banner lives on. For example, this week we read that the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is working with – surprise! – grant-receiving community organizer types to, ah, “educate” and send forth tens of thousands of little eco-pioneers to audit their parents’ adherence to preferred lifestyle decisions.

Our “enviro” crowd hopes to sniff out whether parents are being sufficiently green, via tactics reminiscent of the old reds.

The latest odious stunt by Big Green – whose ranks include enablers in Big Government standing to gain as much or more from imposition of Green Statism as any other vested interest – moves beyond their avowed goals of “getting them young” and engaging the young for their “pester power”. I detailed this growing use of children, and even enlisting them to report back on their parents, in my “Poisoning the Little Ones” chapter of “Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed”. 

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Tags: Al Gore, Big Green, climate change, EPA, Obama
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 8:55 am in Culture, Environment, Obama, Politics | 783060 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/09/24/obamas-epa-in-a-classroom-near-you/Obama%27s+EPA%3A+In+a+Classroom+Near+You2009-09-24+15%3A55%3A08Christopher+C.+Horner