Hillary comes out against Keystone XL

But does so under cover of the Pope's visit:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has come out against the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline. It's something she has spent months avoiding taking a position on — and her announcement coincided with the mass media event of Pope Francis' landing at Andrews Air Force Base.

 [Via PJ Media]

A rarity - an oil industry CEO unafraid of radical adversaries

 
Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson tells it like it is

It is rare to see an oil executive publicly taking on his radical environmental adversaries. 

... Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson came under predictable attack at the company’s annual meeting in Dallas this week from climate radicals and the Catholic Church, in the form of a friar and a nun, but his responses were conspicuously free of the kind of climate apologetics issued last week by Suncor’s Steve Williams. 

 ... Tillerson said his company was not going to “fake” excessive concern for a matter on which the science was still highly uncertain. 

...He didn’t “deny” the slight warning trend of the past century (which has stopped for most of the past two decades), but he pointedly noted that climate models “just aren’t that good.”  

... He also expressed unfashionable faith in human ability to adapt ... “Mankind has this enormous capacity to deal with adversity,” said Tillerson. “Those solutions will present themselves as the realities become clear.”

... One of the most predictable warm up acts for Paris is due to trot into the arena shortly in the form of a Papal Encyclical on climate.  ... Exxon in fact reportedly sent a delegation to the Vatican recently, but it didn’t go to genuflect before climate religion

... Among the paths of appeasement that Exxon Mobil has refused to walk down are those of renewable energy. 

Truly a breath of fresh air.

Rex Tillerson for global CEO of the decade!

The truth about Big Oil

Kelly McParland:

... Environmental zealots like to pretend B.O. is some massive corporate conspiracy run by a few fat cat plutocrats with cigars and evil laughs, but if that was the case they’d hardly have engineered a massive collapse in their wealth just before Christmas. B.O. is more like the weather: just because it’s sunny and warm today doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way. And what autocrat would bet their economy on the weather?