Climate Change - Theology and Reality

by Brad Peck

This year the U.S. Chamber has participated in a series of climate change dialogues to

Stimulate a national discussion on key climate change issues and provide:

• A real-world assessment of our current and projected energy needs;
• An overview of the energy technologies and resources that will be available to substitute for fossil fuels should Congress or EPA reduce the availability of those energy sources;
• A look at the economic impact of policy changes on businesses, consumers and American workers; and
• An understanding of the critical need to develop legislation that harmonizes technology development with mandated emissions reductions in order to avoid economic disruptions.

Of course discussion and realism are anathemas to the Church of Climate Change, who have responded to the dialogues by basically saying:

A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!

Look. There needs to be an evolution in the way we create, move and use energy; we are simply saying that in order to achieve this we need to evaluate all of the options in terms of effectiveness and cost.  Suicide bombing the American economy for the promise of green jobs in heaven isn't going to provide a long-term solution. The knock on our work is that we are trying to obstruct progress, but quite frankly we are the ones fighting for a policy which can actually succeed. Bill Kovacs explained yesterday at a media briefing.