Comments on: Obama NSA Appointee has Ties to Chevron and U.S. Chamber of Commerce http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/obama-nsa-appointee-has-ties-to-chevron-and-us-chamber-of-commerce/ Social and political commentary with a special emphasis on global warming and climate change Wed, 25 May 2011 15:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dennis Markatos-Soriano http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/obama-nsa-appointee-has-ties-to-chevron-and-us-chamber-of-commerce/#comment-333 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:05:34 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/?p=1048#comment-333 Here’s some good news in terms of emissions reduction:
US emissions poised to fall ~2.5% in ’08 and further in ’09, see details at:
http://setenergy.org/2008/11/13/a-banner-year-for-us-climate-research-sees-sharp-emissions-drop/

And even China seems to have falling emissions this quarter:
http://setenergy.org/2008/12/05/china-power-generation-falls-record-amount-climate-hope-alive/

If you find the SET daily blog on energy and climate developments useful, please consider adding it to your blogroll.
Onwards to sustainability,
Dennis

]]> By: JohnnyRook http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/obama-nsa-appointee-has-ties-to-chevron-and-us-chamber-of-commerce/#comment-318 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:02:03 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/?p=1048#comment-318 Do you have a link to where Joe said that? I’d really like to take a look at it.

]]> By: Heath http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/obama-nsa-appointee-has-ties-to-chevron-and-us-chamber-of-commerce/#comment-316 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:00:25 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/?p=1048#comment-316 According to Joseph Romm, it would be out of line for the NSA to be involved in anything dealing with national energy policy. That would fall under the purview of the Secretary of State, and Clinton will be a good advocate for a comprehensive policy along the lines of what Obama has advocated.

]]> By: RPauli http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/obama-nsa-appointee-has-ties-to-chevron-and-us-chamber-of-commerce/#comment-313 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:47:03 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/?p=1048#comment-313 This just means the eventual reckoning will be all the more disturbing and powerful.

Figure a few more climate catastrophes before important thinking changes.

Obama is still new and a rookie – at least we have an intelligent leader who seems to able to learn…and to spot the interrelated complexity of systems.

Too bad we have to wait. The horrible penalty we pay is the further compression of the time left to react. Increasing rate-of-change means adaptation must be logical and decisive rather than genetic and leisurely.

Delay and the failure to make and implement key survival decisions means we move toward extinction faster.

This is a difficult concept for politicians to grasp. Difficult for scientists to describe.

Pity.

]]>