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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Huffing posts GM flack jumps into Huffington Post fray to defend exec's climate-change skepticism	Kate Sheppard	22 Sep 2008	Gristmill
We posted last week about GM Vice Chair Bob Lutz expressing a little climate-change skepticism on The Colbert Report. Josh Nelson wrote about it as well over on Huffington Post, and thus began an online conversation with GM's director of news relations, Tom Wilkinson, who defended both Lutz and the company's environmental policies. 'There is no reason a three-dimensional human being (like Bob Lutz) can't be skeptical about global warming orthodoxy and still be ...
Topics: gas prices, business, cars, climate change skepticism, news, Muckraker (all these topics)

'I don't believe in the CO2 theory' Touting the Volt, GM exec denies anthropogenic climate change	Kate Sheppard	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz was on the 'Colbert Report' last night to talk about the new Chevy Volt, but a lot of the conversation ended up being about whether or not Lutz believes in anthropogenic climate change. Colbert, on the Volt: 'This is tantamount to admitting that we have to do something about global warming, sir. You are capitulating with the enemy. Why not just call this the Chevy Gore? You don't believe global warming is real. You've said so.' Lutz: 'I acce ...
Topics: news, business, climate change skepticism, cars, gas prices, video, Muckraker (all these topics)

They Could Talk the Legs off a Chair Exxon shareholders reject resolution to shake up management		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:55 AM on 28 May 2008 Exxon shareholders have rejected a high-profile resolution to strip one management role from current Chair-'n'-CEO Rex Tillerson and hire an independent chairperson. The influential Rockefeller family, along with various other investors, had pushed for the split. "Despite top-notch individual directors, [Exxon's] record over the last decade, particularly regardi ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics)

Succeeding in the free market	David Roberts	13 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One of my favorite writers, Jonathan Chait, has an article in The New Republic on 'the latest in global warming denialism' (the latest being acknowledging it exists but refusing to do anything about it). It mostly goes over familiar ground, but I wanted to call out one part where Chait makes an unwarranted concession. Discussing recent efforts to repeal some oil industry tax breaks in order to fund tax credits for renewable energy, Chait writes: Objection number one ...
Topics: business, climate change skepticism, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy (all these topics)

Matt Drudge's misleading mashup bolsters right-wing fantasy World Drudge hijacks headlines to sell global warming denial	Brad Johnson	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
From the Think Progress Wonk Room. Atop the Drudge Report right now: Do the stories behind these headlines tell the tale that global warming alarmists have 'hijacked' the political debate despite a 'lack of natural disasters' and no global warming 'since 1998'? No. Let's review: DRUDGE HEADLINE #1: REPORT: GLOBAL TEMPS 'HAVE NOT RISEN SINCE 1998' This claim has been thoroughly debunked every time it's popped up. The oil-backed global ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

Hoffert and Pielke: <del Shame on Nature for quoting Hoffert on behalf of Pielke without noting they're colleagues!	Joseph Romm	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Suppose the prestigious journal Nature published an analysis of mine that they knew many people would disagree with. How would you feel if Nature then ran accompanying commentaries for and against my analysis, including another Senior Fellow from the Center for American Progress raving about how important and brilliant it was? You'd probably think that was kind of lame of them. Now suppose the Nature article never mentioned that I was a CAP Senior Fellow or that my m ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, climate change skepticism, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: The decline and fall of the ideologues Delayers and doomsayers receive a chilly reception from pragmatic business leaders	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
There was a lot going on at the conference, but one underlying dynamic is particularly notable. I mentioned it in my post on Jeff Immelt's panel, but it's worth discussing at more length. The conservative ideologues -- the WSJ editorial board, invited guests Fred Smith and Myron Ebell of CEI, Steve Milloy of JunkScience -- thought they were going to put the CEOs' feet to the fire. Force business community to face some hard truths. Expose carbon policy as an econom ...
Topics: business, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Bringing a knife to a gunfight What drives climate change denial?	Adam Stein	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
David and I have apparently crossed blog streams (very dangerous; never do this), but I do want to expand a bit on this basic idea: climate change skepticism has little to do with science. Rather, it is an outgrowth of the culture war. This point seems both totally obvious and strangely unremarked. At the risk of generalizing, environmentalists tend to view climate change denialism as a top-down, money-driven phenomenon. Energy producers, auto manufacturers, oil compan ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Crock is as crock does GM's Lutz can think whatever he wants, but the record shows his actions hurt the climate fight	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, a post on the Wall Street Journal's energy blog discussed the controversy over GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz calling global warming a 'crock of shit.' It said: Some, like Wired and Grist, buy his argument: As long as GM keeps making progress toward electric cars and expanding the role of alternative fuels like ethanol, the auto maker is clearly blazing a new trail. This is a bad misreading of my point, which I probably didn't make very ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Lutz strikes back GM exec defends calling climate change a 'crock of shit'	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A couple weeks back, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, at a roundtable with reporters, casually mentioned that he thinks global warming is a "crock of shit." (His point was that it makes sense to develop an all-electric vehicle either way.) Lots and lots of people, mainly bloggers, got in a huge uproar about it. Yesterday, Lutz wrote a defiant post on GM's blog addressing the controversy. His point is that it doesn't matter a bit what his personal beliefs are; wha ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics)

Strange bedfellows in climate politics A Nation columnist goes contrarian; GM goes the other way	Charles Komanoff	22 May 2007	Gristmill
Did lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn and corporate behemoth General Motors secretly agree to swap climate positions? It looks that way. GM, swallowing hard, recently joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the elite enviro-business coalition pushing cap-and-trade -- a so-called "market-based system" for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, the famously acidic Cockburn lacerated global warming orthodoxy in his column in the Nation ma ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greening biz operations, US CAP (all these topics)

A Convenient Fiction? AEI brings us the good news on climate	Erik Hoffner	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
How about that fascinating ad in Gristmill today for the new video courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute! An Inconvenient Truth ... or Convenient Fiction? aims to present us with an alternative to the "climate extremism" that is "popular with Hollywood and other pessimistic enclaves" and seeks to assure us everything is A-OK. They're even doing screenings around the U.S. In, uh, three locations. Anyone else give this AEI spin project a spin y ...
Topics: advertising, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Newsweek blesses Richard Lindzen, ignores pay-offs from fuel companies For shame!	Kit Stolz	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This Monday, Newsweek will publish an op-ed by well-known climate-change contrarian Richard Lindzen, which concludes that global warming is nothing to worry about and may even be a good thing. 'Why So Gloomy?' he wonders, and adds that 'a warmer climate could be more beneficial than the one we have now.' Nothing new here: Lindzen's been making the same points for years, despite evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that he served on a prestigious panel chosen b ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Snowe and Rockefeller on the 'uncertainty' agenda Senators send letter to ExxonMobil	Andrew Dessler	04 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Today's Wall Street Journal printed a letter from Senators Snowe and Rockefeller to ExxonMobil (here) along with an editorial about the letter (here). In the letter, Snowe and Rockefeller ask ExxonMobil to stop perpetuating the uncertainty agenda (which they refer to as the 'obfuscation agenda'). The letter is similar in many respects to a letter sent to Exxon by the British Royal Society. The editorial is a broadside against the Senators. How dare they write that l ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

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