People send me stuff.
A dear friend sent me a PDF that contained a description of the ‘National Climate Declaration’ that had some big name company logos stamped all over it. See below:
![BICEPClimateDeclaration_9.18[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/bicepclimatedeclaration_9-181.jpg?quality=83)
Intrigued, especially since I had never heard of it before, I decided to go to http://www.climatedeclaration.us I half expected to find it connected to Obama’s OFA or maybe weepy Bill McKibben’s 350.org. Nope.
I was immediately redirected here: http://www.ceres.org/bicep/climate-declaration
Which was my first red flag, it went to an environmental NGO, called “CERES” located in Boston, MA. The website climatedeclaration.us doesn’t exist as its own website, it’s just web flypaper for the NGO.
I noted that I could sign up as an individual, or as a company. Looking at some of the big name companies there, I decided to see what sort of qualifications and actions might be needed. So, I clicked on that and was presented with a simplistic form. Looking at the web page coding underneath, I decided that there wasn’t likely much more to it, so I decided to put it to the test.
I signed up Pacific Gas and Electric’s well known public information officer, “Reddy Kilowatt” to see if they would reject such an obvious and ridiculous character representing PG&E.
I thought surely they’d have some sort of checks and balances for major corporations to sign up. I thought sure they’d have some sort of requirement to prove that your corporation was indeed a responsible steward of the environment, and against climate change not only in words, but in deeds.
Sadly, no. See the screencaps:
I thought to myself, why stop there?
It seems they’ll take anybody with a mascot:
And predictably, I got a confirmation email.
Looks like the ‘National Climate Declaration’ is just another green petition scam that anybody with an email address can join. I suspect they’ll hit you up later for donations. I’ll advise if that happens.
Metamars: Re: Keeping the oil in the ground. Ever hear of present value? A dollar a hundred years from now is worth…well, nothing, today.
I find it “interesting” (and appalling) that top public financial officials from the states of New York and Connecticut are on the Board of Directors for Ceres:
http://www.ceres.org/about-us/who-we-are/board-of-directors
Those people oversee many billions of dollars of public employee pension fund investments. Even if one believed (ha ha) that ‘green’ investments made financial sense for public pension funds, it is a fundamental conflict-of-interest for public officials to serve on such a Board while serving in govt.
Only naive or demented people could believe that there can never be divergence of interests between an organization like Ceres and the long-term financial interests of public employees and pensioners.
What if the best financial investments involve avoiding or betting against some of the Ceres partners??????
Perhaps we should all sign up as many real and fictitious entities as possible this evening, before they may correct this vast gaping hole in their operations….. It could be great to present the news media with a hilarious and/or scandalous list of enrolled companies….. Not that there are many real reporters who might take interest in this “green scandal”…..
Opra-tunety lost.
ESSO Tiger</b)
1959 (ESSO) An advertising copywriter in Chicago comes up with the advertising slogan “Put a tiger in your tank.” Name not given at that time, and I did not find one.
Lots of images and usages. Here is one from almost 50 years ago.
http://whirledofkelly.blogspot.com/2010/10/biggerest-idea.html
Time to sell your Exxon shares – they’re onviously run bt nitwits.
In addition to CT and NY, there is the CEO of CalPERS (pension funds for California public employees), who chairs the Board of Directors for this farce:
ESSO Tiger Sorry! (hangs head)
100 MPG carburetor lore? Sorry, but carb technology was NEVER going to get you optimum gas mileage under varying conditions (including temperature, altitude changes), NEITHER WAS any other simple mechanical system that delivered fuel into the intake air stream .. it was not until port fuel injection tech came along that mileage and performance really took off. Remember, a constituent part of this is MEETING EPA emissions requirements.
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metamars;
I’ve also known, from 30 years ago, that US auto companies suppress gas saving technologies (long story, 2nd hand info).
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Yeah. Some auto companies have fuel technology that could net them tens of billions of additional market share and monster profits, but they suppress it. Sure. Let’s go with that.
Skiphil says:
I say again,
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/mind-blowing-apple-ceo-tells-deniers-to-get-out-of-apple-stock/#comments (4:39 PM)
I remember Herr Doktor Mann accusing skeptics of being ‘oil industry shills’ and ‘fossil fuel puppets”. Would that apply to promoters of the Climate Change declaration, signed by Big Oil companies? Or should oil firms be now regarded as converted to the true faith, and therefore ‘redeemed’ from previous sins?
To historians of the future, we bequeath for all practical purposes, an infinite amount of intellectual fodder.
@ur momisugly p@ur momisugly Dolan
Drink Murphy’s Irish Stout, it’s better than Guinness (owned by Heineken).
@DocBud:
Good tip! I like Murphy’s. There are a number of others, as well, (Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout, for example) that are terrific. But I practically grew up on Dublin Buttermilk
*sigh*
‘Tis a sad thing. My distant ancestor Niall would take 9 MORE hostages! I’ll simply live w/out… As we say in Surfer Japoanese, “Bummer desu, Dude!”
Interesting, perhaps minor, but more likely a dip into the mindset:
“The very foundation of our country is based on fighting for our freedoms and ensuring the health and prosperity of our state, our community, and our families.”
Yep – The State’s freedoms and Prosperity first, followed by the community, then families – oh, and don’t even bother with the freedom and prosperity of the individual. Notice how this is flipped upside down and backwards? But isn’t the whole scam about increasing state power and control by manipulating the fears of the voting individual thus transferring that power to the government self appointed elites while creating a money flow to sustain that power?
Yep – a telling Freudian slip there!
Those of us who work to deter big corporations from becoming handmaidens of the left may not recover from reading that story for some time.
Oh, that was hilarious!
The best laugh I had all day…
The CAGW disinformation religious cult is doing, as Tony the Tiger would say, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!!!…
Don’t try to tell me to “save energy” then try to sell it to me at the same time. I am the CEO, I have a marketing division that promotes a product to be better than my competitors product, which by the way is exactly the same product under a different name. The product make your car go down the road, but please don’t use it, we need to save energy…save the planet!
P.S. I put green dye into it so it would be a “Green” product. Now you can feel good about your stop and go trip to work and back home. Don’t you love my product now? It’s the responsible thing to do. Save the children.
The Exxon (Esso) tiger doesn’t appear to have a name…. Tony was selling Frosted Flakes of course, which makes the whole story that much funnier.
BUT, beware how those slime bags might spin this…. as some kind of fraud.
I do see that the sponsors are a pretty narrow group. There are some big names in there, some of whom know better than to sign something so corny. There could be more sleight of hand beyond the underlying identity.
DocBud says:
March 3, 2014 at 8:47 pm
@ur momisugly p@ur momisugly Dolan
Drink Murphy’s Irish Stout, it’s better than Guinness (owned by Heineken).
Murphy’s is much better..in some respects. Yes…now I am getting thirsty! But put some green stickers on the label…seize the marketing opportunity to be planet friendly. Embrace the change…the climate change. And put a tiger in your tank; remember to change the fuel filter …frequently…as it clogs with tiger fur.
Not a pretty sight, but, take heart, dear truth in science warriors. Look quickly enough when he reads any press releases about the above apparent deference to the Envirostalinists and you will see Tony the Tiger ( = Exxon) wink.
Exxon Mobil — STILL All About Petroleum — Yes!
“Words. Just words.”
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And since they valiantly held out against ethanol gas (in my area, anyway) long after all the other brands caved (they’ve had to cave on that one too, for now):
A little P.R. shout-out to Conoco Phillips!
#(:))
This doesn’t make any sense if you consider Exxon mobile just an oil company. But they’re also a natural gas company. And with solar and wind power needing peaking power plants when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, which is most of the time. Those peaking plants just happened to burn lots of natural gas.
Well then, cheers and beers to Conoco…..and then came the ethanol…that actually lowers your fuel mileage and eats non metallic seals…and why is my service light on?. what is next? Oh…I know…little Green RF chips that track the car’s movement so you pay by the mile (already do via fuel mileage). Another seize the opportunity moment! But wait…electric cars are not paying gas taxes…that simply is not fair…but neither are bicycles and pedestrians…we need RFchips in everything and everybody!!…and fairness if we are going to have Green cars. I mean …. new taxes and new ways to collect those Green taxes…
Must be the Murphy’s:)
What a shocker.
Not at all – Corporate America is, needless to say, part of the elite.
The elites favor the climate change crusade. They also favor, for example, gay marriage. Again, no surprise, the biggest transnational corporations have planted their flags for gay rights.
At some point, the climate skeptics will be forced to confront deeper issues in our culture. Such as: who decides who is or is not a member of the elite? And what disqualifies someone for membership?
I clicked on “www.climatedeclaration.us” and it’s dead now.