This is a guest post by Jamie L. Vernon, Ph.D., a research scientist and aspiring policy wonk, who recently moved to D.C. to get a taste of the action In 2007, a famous person uttered the following words at an energy conference in Houston, Texas,
“We know our climate is changing, the average temperature of the earth is rising, and greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.”
Who was that person? None other than the CEO of ExxonMobile, Rex Tillerson. He went on to say,
“Our industry has a responsibility to contribute to policy discussions on these important issues – and to take concrete actions ourselves to reduce emissions.”
Without getting into the issue of why ExxonMobil has failed to seriously commit to this responsibility, I'm more concerned at the moment with Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum's statement that "There is no such thing as global warming." In an apparent attempt to ...
