ClimateGate
Whenever I go out these days and someone hears that I am a sustainability consultant, they inevitably want to know how I am reacting to the “devastating news” about climate change and the conspiracy to withhold the truth, a.k.a. ClimateGate.
Are you kidding me?
Just look at the timing of the release of the so called conspiracy. Ok, which is the conspiracy? Why was this “news” discovered and released just days before the world’s leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss the very issue of Climate Change and what we, the peoples of the world, can do about it.** Things that make you go hmmm.
ClimateGate – Which is the conspiracy? In all seriousness, I present three excellent resources to put us all back on track, gain some perspective, hopefully put the issue to rest.
1) Video examining the “evidence” presented in the press by Anti-Climate Change talking heads. This video came to me from a sustainability colleague Fabian Pattberg in his post today “Video: Silencing the Climate Change Critics”
2) Mother Jones recent article on the subject
3) My favorite and still probably the best resource out there on the subject: Grist’s How to Talk to a Climate Change Skeptic series.
** On a sad, and shaking my head note – I share with you a report from Copenhagen, where the world’s leaders are supposed to be coming together to deal climate change and be concerned about man’s impact on the climate.
Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
“Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.”
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Opportunity Sustainability℠ is a Midwest-based sustainability and corporate responsibility consulting firm specializing in green innovation and seeing opportunities where others see burdens. Matthew Rochte LEED AP, an experienced, operations-based sustainability consultant, works with company management to navigate and realize the opportunities in taking their company green and growing sustainably.
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Matthew Rochte, LEED AP 
Very interesting. There is a lot of emotion from both sides when the topic of Global Warming arises. Regardless of your beliefs, the important aspect to take from this process is the push for innovation. For example, while it is true that the change from oil would be costly and take decades to implement, pushing or forcing the global community to innovate and find alternative solutions will lead to invaluable discoveries. Staying with oil, without innovation would gas mileages for vehicles today ever improved?
You would be naive, though, to ignore the financial side of this innovation. There have been many technologies (or rumors thereof) that have been squashed by those who feared the success of the new technology would cut into the bottom line. Corporations, governments, small businesses and the like are all finding that regardless of their political view of the topic, they have more to gain by joining in the Green movement than fighting it.