America has done very well at making excuses for a long time. Wouldn't it be in your interests, being that your country was the largest co2 contributor before China, to deny whats happening?
Why wouldn't you expect the same misinformation that sold you Iraq to be the same kind of lobbyist speak that climate change is producing.
Study Finds Unprecedented Growth in Climate Change Lobbying
A new report from the Center for Public Integrity reveals that the number of global warming lobbyists has increased by more than 300 percent in the past five years. In the past year, some 770 companies hired over 2,000 climate change lobbyists and spent an estimated $90 million to influence federal policy on climate change. We speak to the report’s lead author, Marianne Lavelle.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/26/study_finds_unprecedented_growth_in_climate
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
