GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock"

[Ichingcarpenter]

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.

Lutz, GM's outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.

In a posting on his GM blog on Thursday, Lutz said those "spewing virtual vitriol" at him for minimizing the threat of climate change were "missing the big picture."

"What they should be doing in earnest is forming opinions, not about me but about GM and what this company is doing that is ... hugely beneficial to the causes they so enthusiastically claim to support," he said in a posting titled, "Talk About a Crock."

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2237297620080222?rpc=64

[CoffeeCat]

1. The GM executives...

...will go down in flames like those lying bastards who flacked for the tobacco industry.

Let these foolish, greedy, perverse reptiles keep on talking--so we'll have their very own
words to play back for them in the future.

They look ridiculous now, and in the future they will look like myopic, ignorant, corporate
clowns who were wrong about everything--and clearly put profits in front of the public interest.

I say, we keep the microphones in their faces. We want more of this insanity on record.

[VP505]

2. Apparently Mr Lutz

thinks that no one will notice his "total crock of s---" meme is so devoid of reality. As GM's product development chief how much credibility does he have on his companies commitment to environmental issues when he makes that kind of statement?

[Lint Head]

3. Bob Lutz is proof that intelligence has nothing to do with wealth.

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York The Observer, Sunday February 22 2004 Article history · Contact us the Environment editor
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This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday February 22 2004 . It was last updated at 01:33 on February 22 2004. Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.............

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver :dem:

[R_M]

4. GM is old news.

Honda and Toyota are the carmakers of the 21st century.
I expect Detroit to sink soon. It's almost there, but these ass's will assure the death of the city.