Some uncommon good sense about AGW and Kyoto controls

A CEO With A Spine - April 3, 2007 - The New York Sun:

"Some wealthy elitists in our country," he told the audience, "who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are abstractions to them, but they are not to me, as I can name many of the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be destroyed by these elitists' ill-conceived ‘global goofiness' campaigns."

Hats off to Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation for having the courage to speak out for the best interests of the American people. I guess it takes the kind of man who actually mined coal for a living and had the courage to mortgage his home to start a company that has grown to employ 3,000 people to have that kind of courage.

I also want to salute the author of this piece in The New York Sun, Alicia Colon, for concluding her article with this comment about on the Kyoto CO2 control regime:

The irony is that these caps and controls will do little to affect climate. Timothy Ball, a renowned environmental consultant, testified before the committee that global warming is more likely to be caused by sun spots rather than human activity. Mr. Murray's passion for saving the "little guy" is truly admirable. Too bad that fervor is completely absent in Congress.