Posted on 12/01/2015 3:02:13 AM PST by markomalley
President Obama is enlisting conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch in his fight to combat climate change, with companies News Corporation and 21st Century Fox signing onto a White House pledge to cut emissions and support the president's push for a global climate deal in Paris.
Tuesday's announcement by the White House nearly doubles the number of businesses to sign the climate pledge since July, making News Corp. and Fox, of which Murdoch is the co-chairman, the latest to do so.
The 73 companies that signed the American Business Act on Climate Pledge have operations in all 50 states and represent $4.2 trillion in annual revenue, the White House said Tuesday.
It said the additional businesses — which also includes the likes of Honda, Amazon, MGM Resorts and coal mining giant Rio Tinto — make for a total of 154 companies joining the pledge to fight climate change since the summer. In doing so, the businesses also pledge to support Obama's goal of securing an international deal to cut global emissions with the United Nations this month in Paris.
The president traveled to Paris on Sunday to kick off two weeks of negotiations in the City of Light to reach a global emissions reduction agreement by Dec. 11.
"By signing the American Business Act on Climate pledge, these companies are voicing support for a strong Paris outcome. The pledge recognizes those countries that have already put forward climate targets, and voices support for a strong outcome in the Paris climate negotiations," the White House said.
The pledge would support any deal agreed to in Paris by "announcing significant pledges to reduce their emissions, increase low-carbon investments, deploy more clean energy, and take other actions to build more sustainable businesses and tackle climate change."
Tuesday's pledges include ambitious, company-specific goals, including: cutting emissions by as much as 50 percent; cutting water use by as much as 80 percent; reaching a zero landfill waste goal; buying 100 percent renewable energy for their facilities; and pursuing a goal of zero net deforestation.
Well, isn’t that just super cozy?
CCI...one BIG money maker....for so many.
Wow.
I like that word ... cozy. That is what it is.
The desk of a Patriot!!
God bless and keep dear Sen Sessions.
He has TRIED to warn us....and was even chided, by some, for doing so :(
Now I’m officially done with them.... except for Hannity, of course.
Murdoch was more of a Conservative then his TWO sons who he has turned News Corp over to.
One of his sons is a close friend of Al Gore. Need I say more.
Thanks for the info on the blonde witch.
I do not watch her, but I watch the bloviator.
:)
It’s a bad syllogism. Ebola is small too. Ricin is small.
Thermodynamics, however, is your buddy.
Energy, like matter, is neither created or destroyed. The Earth has all the matter its ever going to have. As such, what additional source of energy remains that could effect global climate? The Sun.
Get a cardboard box, cut a hole in the top and drop an incandescent bulb through the hole. Put nine (eight if you think Pluto isn’t a planet) rocks in the box and measure the temps. Vary the intensity of the bulb, measure the temp of the rocks.
If we were doing something, locally, to influence planetary climate, we’d be seeing no change in the temps of the planets in our system and a spike in the temps of Earth. As long as our temps track with our planetary neighbor’s temps, then we know it isn’t us.
Not saying we can’t poison ourselves, but the left wants us to accept 2 + 2 = 5, and I fully expect by the end it will come down to torture, arrest, and impoverishment for those that won’t attest to the obvious fact that 2 + 2 = 5.
There has been a definite uptick lately in anti-Trump BS by “The Bloviator” and “The Little Blond Witch” that follows him.
I don’t watch FNC....but this now makes more sense, than ever.
Now we know why FauxNews was hell-bent on the Trump ambush attempt, at the first debate.
Trump is the ONLY candidate who has tried to warn us about the Trade debacle, which ushers in Climate Change laws, from day one.
“Trump is the ONLY candidate who has tried to warn us about the Trade debacle, which ushers in Climate Change laws, from day one.”
And the climate restrictions placed on companies and citizens is just one of many things implemented to weaken our economy, ala Coward-Piven.
Be ready for the meltdown.
Be ready for the meltdown.
Of the Cruz supporters? Or, of the nation?
(Just curious :)
UGH. She’s really turned into a Rachel Maddow, proving that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” She’d be much the better person were she to completely ignore Mr. Trump and coverage of him, but NOOOO, she can’t help herself, petty, scorned witch that she truly is.
LOL! I was thinking longer term- yes, the country.
But the Cruz meltdown will be in just a few months!
You’re right.
Oh WOW !
All of the pro-Cruz, anti Trump articles coming out today are beginning to make sense. :)
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