Exxon CEO - "No Question" On Warming, But Offers No Specific Actions Company Will Take - Star-Tele

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HOUSTON -- Exxon Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson told a world energy conference today that "there is no question that the world’s climate is getting warmer,” and said that technological advances and a global strategy will be needed to combat the rise in carbon emissions.

"It is foolish for individual countries to engage in their own actions because it won’t do much more than make them feel good,” Tillerson said. "It is particularly important for the emerging economies of the Pacific Rim, where the biggest increases in carbon emissions will occur, to take part in the discussions.”

Tillerson’s remarks, to the annual Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference, marked a continuation of Exxon Mobil’s growing strategy to make itself part of the global climate debate rather than denying that the problem exists. More than 2,000 people from 44 countries are attending the CERA conference.

Tillerson didn’t offer specific actions that nations should adopt to combat climate change but said technology can provide the bulk of the answers. "The public and policymakers are largely unaware of the improved technologies that make our industry so much more efficient and reduce our environmental footprint,” said Tillerson, a native of Wichita Falls who succeeded Lee Raymond as Exxon Mobil chairman 14 months ago.

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Ah, bringing out the Holy Technology Hand Grenade Of Antioch once again.

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1. Thou shall not count to 2, unless thou proceedest directly on to three.

Five is right out!

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2. I think he might win a prize for highest density of climate-change denial cliches.

He's got the old Dick Cheney special: "conservation is feel-good, but useless" He's got the "blame the Asians." And, of course, the HTHGOA.