LA Weekly

"CEOs Melt Under Warming Myth!" trumpets Investor's Business Daily, today in an article by Club-for-Growth-er Stephen Moore, who goes on to complain about how business are finally starting to believe all that falderal about melting polar ice caps and rising seas. "Like prisoners who come to admire their captors," Moore complains, "many leaders of corporate America have agreed to lobby beside the very interest groups in Washington that would put them out of business."

If Moore is including among those prisoners of the environmental lobby Climate RESOLVE, a voluntary greenhouse gas management program organized by an association of 150 CEOs called "The Business Roundtable," he can relax, at least for now: Climate RESOLVE has just been named "Greenwasher of the Month" by The Green Life, a resource and advocacy group for sustainable communities and environmentally sound politics. The problem is that RESOLVE, far from capitulating to the environmentalists, has not resolved to reduce emissions, but only to meet President Bush’s challenge to better the emissions-to-GDP ratio. In other words, as long as the economy expands, emissions can continue to spew at ever-higher levels.

And there's even more here to comfort Moore. According to The Green Life's Web site:

General Motors, which not only qualified for participation in Climate RESOLVE, but was noted in the Exemplary Company Actions listed in the program’s first progress report, released last month, for initiatives including “the removal of bulbs illuminating the front panel of over 100 vending machines.” Meanwhile, General Motors’ fleetwide fuel economy – the truest gauge of an automaker’s impact on the climate – is the same as it was ten years ago.

Of course, if Moore's wrong and RESOLVE fails, GM execs may be making some drastic design changes to their 2012 fleet. Maybe they can partner up with these folks.

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