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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to pick a fight with Apple over climate change. This started after Apple quit the chamber this week and made it clear that it was doing so because it thinks the people running the chamber are a bunch of imbeciles when it comes to climate change. Yesterday, in an incredibly brazen move, the head of the chamber struck back, firing off a letter in which he criticized Apple and said the chamber really does care about climate change, and that Apple just didn't take the time to listen to its plans. (My colleague Daniel Stone blogged about the squabble earlier today here on Techtonic Shifts.)

On climate change, U.S. Chamber of Commerce is full of hot air The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to pick a fight with Apple over climate change. This started after Apple quit the chamber this week and made it clear that they were doing so because they think the people running the chamber are a bunch of imbeciles when it comes to climate change. Yesterday, in an incredibly brazen move, the head of the chamber struck back, firing off a letter in which he criticized Apple and said the chamber really does care about climate change, and that Apple just didn't take the time to listen to their plans. (My colleague Daniel Stone blogged about the squabble earlier today here on Techtonic Shifts.) Money quote from chamber president Thomas Donohue in his letter to Apple: “It is unfortunate that your company didn’t take the time to understand the Chamber’s position on climate and forfeited the opportunity to advance a 21st century approach to climate change." See, this is the new strategy from the climate change obstructionists. Instead of saying climate change is a bunch of hooey, and threatening to put climate science on trial , as the chamber was trying to do only two months ago, now they're playing a more sophisticated game -- one that comes straight out of Orwell. It goes like this: Gee whiz, we really are sooo concerned about climate change, we're really serious about it, and we have all these great ideas about how to address climate change and we really want to study the issue and embrace change and lead America into the 21st century ... blah blah blah. But really what they want to do is drag their feet and make sure nothing gets done.