Apple CEO Tim Cook to climate deniers: “Get out of this stock”

Is that an unusual one-day price change for Apple? Otherwise, it is (as you imply) certainly not an important point.

I suppose there are people who find many concepts amorphorous, including envtl sustainability. If this limits them to think-tank 'work', it could simply be other potential employers have previously assessed the 'resource'.

Absent (seems to me) from Apple's product field is a much more resource-intensive competing product that people could 'feel good about' buying, like the discontinued Hummer.

 

Don't mean to side track this but,

Now Macs use Intel, and can run Windows natively. While PC builders make HackIntoshes.

On the OT, I think it was a great response he had.

 

how long has al gore been on the board? they make it sound like he came in the back door when steve went out the front.

 

Jobs welcomed Gore to the board in 2003.

 

amazing. now these guys act like he's got cook in his hip pocket. what a bunch of hypocrites.

 

The day after Apple decided it didnt want to do business with 51% the population,Warren Buffet made a statement denying climate change affected losses due to natural disasters.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303630904579418754090426372
Pretty funny coming from one the worlds largest investors,while putting Cooks foot in his mouth .
I guess Warren and Berkshire are not welcome to buy Apple stock.
Ill vote with my feet as well .No purchasing Apple products either.
I think its a disgusting company.
Hoarding profits overseas to evade taxes.Unwilling to donate charitably for decades.
Paying slave wages.
Apple is so cool it makes sense that gullible climate believers are fan boys.

 

Are you suggesting global warming is not happening?

 

uh-oh

 

Global warming has been occurring since 1850 when the Earths climate came out of a cold period known as the "little ice age".
Prior to that, the Earth was much warmer than today for most of the past 10,000 years.
Is global warming happening.Yes.
Is it caused by man from CO2 .Unlikely.

 

Well, I believe I won't change your mind, but "unlikely" is a poor choice. The intergovernmental panel on climate change uses "extremely likely", which they define as 95-100% for man's responsibility. This is corroborated by nearly every study on the subject (with the rare exceptions of some privately funded ones). I might be missing something here, and I like to have a complete point of view, but could you elaborate on why you use "unlikely"? I mean apart from the opinion of a great investor with absolutely no background in science.

 

Heres what youre missing.
Although temps were higher for most of the past 10,000 years CO2 WAS LOWER THAN TODAY.
(Same with 100,000 years ago ,for 15,000 years , Earths temp was much higher than today while CO2 was much lower)
Today CO2 has risen but temps have not risen for the past 17 years.
There is no correlation between temperature and CO2.

 

Unfortunately, this argument does not make sense. You are implying there is only one source of global warming. The necessary time for warming in the last interglacial periods was a few millenia. We are seeing a similar effect over 50 years. The greenhouse effect is well documented. Cheers

 

Some concepts take a bit of thought before they "make sense"
Especially when we've been subjected to years of media brainwashing.
CO2 theortically causes some warming.
But theres no evidence that it ever controlled climate in the past .Temps rose in the past as quickly as today with no increase in CO2.

What is the responsibility of a CEO to his shareholders?

 

to build and maintain a company that will provide value for a long time to come.

 

Global warming is a joke. Actually the globe has been warming and cooling since the beginning of time. It's just the wacked out environmentalists who believe it is being controlled by man. I am guess since this is a Prius site lots of you feel that way. Lots of people are making money off it such as Big Al Gore who wastes more energy than probably 10 normal folks with his mansion and private jet. What a joke.

 

I consider myself to be a wacked out environmentalist as well.In the vein of Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore.
Whom also thinks CO2 global warming is bull.
Im for clean air water and natural land.

 

He licensed Macintosh clones.

I like Tim Cook a lot, but I do not think he can replace S Jobs. Then again, who can ?