Industry awakens to climate change: Coca-Cola, other MNCs now see global warming as e

[Crabtownboy]

With industries being affected by global warming, does this mean the GOP will start to take it seriously?

Coca-Cola had always been more focused on its economic bottom line than on global warming, but when the company lost a lucrative operating license in India because of a serious water shortage there in 2004, things began to change.

After a decade of increasing hits to Coke's balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.

"Increased droughts, more unpredictabl, 100-year floods every two years," said Jeffrey Seabright, Coke's vice president of environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said were also disrupting the company's supply of sugar cane and sugar beets, as well as citrus for its fruit juices. "When we look at our most essential ingredients, we see those events as threats."



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[Revmitchell]

The title of the op is just flat out a lie. No where in the article does it even remotely suggest that Coke as decided that any of these difficulties are a direct result "global warming" or "climate change".


All the quote from Coke says is that Coke sees things like droughts effecting their bottom line. Coke itself never makes a connection between droughts and global warming.

 

[Revmitchell]

Nike, which has more than 700 factories in 49 countries, many in Southeast Asia, is also speaking out because of extreme weather that is disrupting its supply chain. In 2008, floods temporarily shut down four Nike factories in Thailand, and the company remains concerned about rising droughts in regions that produce cotton, which the company uses in its athletic clothes.

Again Nike does not make a connection between the droughts and this false science of climate change. They are just recognizing the financial effects of the droughts. This kind of behavior is at the very core of the so called climate change science.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Again Nike does not make a connection between the droughts and this false science of climate change. They are just recognizing the financial effects of the droughts.

You read with tinted glasses. But even you someday will wake to the truth. Global warming computer models have predicted this for years.

 

[Crabtownboy]

All the quote from Coke says is that Coke sees things like droughts effecting their bottom line. Coke itself never makes a connection between droughts and global warming.

You cherry pick your quote. Rather like proof texting the Bible to prove a belief that is wrong as you do not like the truth.

Bold is to emphasis the point.

Today, after a decade of increasing damage to Coke’s balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.

As I said, even you someday will have to admit the truth ... unless you are like the flat-earthers.

 

[church mouse guy]

You read with tinted glasses. But even you someday will wake to the truth. Global warming computer models have predicted this for years.

Global warming computer models have predicted for years that someday you will wake to the truth?

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Global warming computer models have predicted for years that someday you will wake to the truth?

CTB wake up to the truth? He knows the truth. He's just shilling for his socialist puppet masters, lulling us to sleep with his inconsequential nonsense while the real efforts to undermine our economy and our government as being successfully carried out beyond our sight.

 

[church mouse guy]

CTB wake up to the truth? He knows the truth. He's just shilling for his socialist puppet masters, lulling us to sleep with his inconsequential nonsense while the real efforts to undermine our economy and our government as being successfully carried out beyond our sight.

And meanwhile he is living in Europe I guess.

 

[InTheLight]

The title of the op is just flat out a lie. No where in the article does it even remotely suggest that Coke as decided that any of these difficulties are a direct result "global warming" or "climate change".


All the quote from Coke says is that Coke sees things like droughts effecting their bottom line. Coke itself never makes a connection between droughts and global warming.

You're right. It's not explicitly stated by a Coke representative that global warming is the cause. If Coke truly believed in global warming it shouldn't be a stretch to get a direct quote. It may well be that Coke does blame global warming for the freakish weather, but the article doesn't support it. I think the writer of the article is either dishonest, incompetent, or both.

 

[church mouse guy]

Indiana has been experiencing one of the worst winters since the blizzard of 1978. Since the first of December we have had over three feet of snow here in the Indy area--a huge total for us. We have been in the deep freeze for days with temperatures more or less around zero. The forecast for the weekend is more snow.

What is really happening is that the sun has gone to sleep and there is no activity and no flares on the sun:

 

[Don]

You read with tinted glasses. But even you someday will wake to the truth. Global warming computer models have predicted this for years.

Then explain why the global warming computer models didn't predict the freakish winter weather we're having. Or the abnormal cooling of the sun.

 

[church mouse guy]

This is the coldest and snowiest winter in Indy since 1978 when we had a severe blizzard. Our heating bills are going higher because Obama has a War on Coal and does not want us to have cheap electricity here in Indiana, a coal-producing state. So natural gas is rising in price due to increased demand for home heating and electrical power production. Thanks, Democrats.

What is really happening according to the British is that the sun is sleeping--that is, there are no solar flares to keep the polar vortex up at the pole where it belongs:

 

[Crabtownboy]

This is the coldest and snowiest winter in Indy since 1978 when we had a severe blizzard. Our heating bills are going higher because Obama has a War on Coal and does not want us to have cheap electricity here in Indiana, a coal-producing state. So natural gas is rising in price due to increased demand for home heating and electrical power production. Thanks, Democrats.

Proves nothing. Prague in the Czech Republic is having the one of the warmest winters on record. Some spring flowers are already blooming.

 

[church mouse guy]

We all agree that place-to-place and day-to-day variations in weather do not mean anything and we further add that there is no such thing as global warming. We think that it deals with sun spots, or perhaps only a relatively few decades of accurate records versus the thousands of years of weather since Noah's flood. We know that it made Al Gore rich and Barack Obama insane.

 

[Revmitchell]

So anyway the op is an intentional misrepresentation of what it claims.