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Posted on 07/22/2008 6:07:24 PM PDT by Delacon
Madame Chairman, I am very disappointed to see that this Committee is once again beginning its deliberations on global warming in the wrong manner. Rather than focusing on substantive issues that would be helpful to the debate on global warming legislation, this Committee is choosing to engage in more political theater with a predetermined outcome. The rushed process and the complete lack of understanding of the policy implications of the Lieberman Warner doomed it from the start. Opposition to the bill was not limited to Republicans, as nearly 30% of Senate Democrats refused to support the bill.
If this Committee were serious in undertaking efforts to draft global warming policy rather than score political points, it should be focusing its efforts in a much more methodical and deliberative manner that acknowledges the complexity of the issues surrounding any mandatory emission reduction policy. Regardless of my own position on this topic, the Committee should be exploring issues to help build a record on how to draft a cap and trade system, the level of technology currently available to achieve reductions, how to allocate credits, how to design an auction system, how to create a domestic offset program, what the international impacts will be on trade and particularly exports, how to effectively contain costs through a transparent mechanism, and the list could go on.
Instead we are here to politicize the internal deliberative process of the Administration under the guise of an update on the science of global warming hearing. While I welcome the opportunity to discuss the latest science on global warming, doing it in this heavily political setting with a predetermined outcome focused on internal deliberations of the Executive is not the right venue for such discussion. It is my view that regardless of Administration, the President acting through the entire executive branch is fully entitled to express his policy judgments to the EPA Administrator, and to expect his subordinate to carry out the judgment of what the law requires and permits. It can be argued that the “unitary Executive concept” promotes more effective rulemaking by bringing a broader perspective to bear on important regulatory decisions. It also enhances democratic accountability for regulatory decision-making by pinning responsibility on the President to answer to the public for the regulatory actions taken by his Administration. Therefore, I consider this debate over censorship within the Administration to be a nonissue. All administrations edit testimony and all documents go through interagency review before any final agency action. I cannot support any investigations that could have a chilling effect within the deliberative process of the Administration, and cause future career and political employees from refraining from an open and honest dialogue.
Regarding the real subject of the hearing, it is no secret what my views on the science of man-made global warming are. I welcome Dr. Roy Spencer, who will be updating the Committee on his recent theoretical and observational evidence that climate sensitivity has been overestimated, as well as giving his perspective on White House involvement in the reporting of agency employee’s work.
I am also happy to report that there are several updates that are worth noting for purposes of the record for this hearing. Numerous peer-reviewed studies, analyses and prominent scientists continue to speak out to refute many conclusions of the IPCC. I have documented in the past how the consensus on the “science is settled” debate has been challenged, and in many cases, completely refuted, from the hockey stick, to the Stern Review, to the IPCC backtracking on conclusive physical links between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity.
Just this past week, a major new study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics that finds worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response' to oceans, and not carbon dioxide. There have also been recent challenges by Russian scientists to the very idea that carbon dioxide is driving Earth’s temperature and a report from India challenging the so-called “consensus.” The Physics and Society Forum, a unit within the American Physical Society, published a new paper refuting the IPCC conclusions where the editor conceded there is a ‘considerable presence' of global warming skeptics within the scientific community. More and more prominent scientists continue to speak out and dissent from man made global warming. In June, the Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever, declared himself a “skeptic” and said “global warming has become a new religion.” Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology also dissented in 2008. “As a scientist I remain skeptical” of climate fears, Dr. Simpson said in February of this year. In June, a top UN IPCC Japanese Scientist, Dr. Kiminori Itoh, turned on the IPCC and called man-made global warming fears the “worst scientific scandal in the history.” In addition, more evidence of challenges to global warming occurred when two top hurricane scientists announced they were reconsidering their views on global warming and hurricanes. As the normal scientific process continues to evolve and models continue to improve, there have many more instances documented that are positive developments, which should be embraced, rather than ridiculed or immediately attacked by the media or policymakers. It is my hope that as more and more of these researchers speak out, scientific objectivity and integrity can be restored to the field of global warming research. Contact: Marc Morano 202-224-5762 Matt Dempsey 202-224-9797 matthew_dempsey@epw.senate.gov
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X, why dont you like this guy?
God bless Senator Inhofe...a true hero. God keep him safe and healthy. We need his voice for sanity.
Mark
If only he could get Gore put in prison for fraud!!!!
I’ll bump to that!
where exactly did I say that?
Inhofe is a modern miracle - a Congress critter on the side of the people.
I don’t normally speak in those terms but, yes, I truly wish him all the best. He’s carrying the burden for all of us.
I’m trying to do my little bit, in my own place of work and by writing letters to some (brainwashed) politicians in Australia and many of the best links to articles and studies have been on Senator Inhofe’s site (and Free Republic, of course, that goes without saying!). He is providing a major public service, both by publicising the truth and by providing a rich source of information.
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Thank you, Inhofe for your boldness and courage.
Global Warming is an interesting topic to me, but I’m a hack. I admire the Democrats for creating an issue that galvanizes the masses like Global Warming. The only way we can get the majority of people to start being more efficient is by baking up a scheme like this. Otherwise, the only thing that will cut American’s resource consumption would be a huge disruption to global resources and securities which isn’t hard to imagine considering the burdening demand from the Far East and “peak resources.”
When Obama says that American’s won’t be able to eat as much and use as much energy, its true. The question is whether a Global Economic recession decides it or if we can enter the New World on our own terms.
Another trick of Global Warming is that we will one day be able to force 3rd World Countries entering our trade organizations to conform to our “green-standards.”
Newt Gingrich predicts that the USA could have a “green economic niche” in the 21st century....
Savage Texan Writes:
“Global Warming is an interesting topic to me, but I’m a hack. I admire the Democrats for creating an issue that galvanizes the masses like Global Warming. The only way we can get the majority of people to start being more efficient is by baking up a scheme like this. Otherwise, the only thing that will cut American’s resource consumption would be a huge disruption to global resources and securities which isn’t hard to imagine considering the burdening demand from the Far East and “peak resources.”
When Obama says that American’s won’t be able to eat as much and use as much energy, its true. The question is whether a Global Economic recession decides it or if we can enter the New World on our own terms.
Another trick of Global Warming is that we will one day be able to force 3rd World Countries entering our trade organizations to conform to our “green-standards.”
Newt Gingrich predicts that the USA could have a “green economic niche” in the 21st century....”
Welcome to FR. Did you join just today so you could post an outcome measured, means neutral ethical train wreck? At FR we are inclined to us the TRUTH to free society from brain rot. We rely on education, analytical thinking to escape the attempts of others to control the sheeple. Don’t know where you are coming from but thinking that the ZOT should be considered. IB4TZ?
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Thanx for the ping!!
Sounds like the attitude that says if we have something, someone else has to go without. That's a single pie attitude. Why not make sure there is more than one pie? We have the skills and the technology to do so. Instead of worrying about if the climate is going to get warm or cool, why not just make sure that we don't bankrupt countries with cap and trade silliness, and CO2 requirements, when none of those will make the world any warmer or any cooler.
Let the countries take care of their own people in their own way, and if they don't have to spend money on carbon trading schemes, and hideously expensive alternative energy sources, because they've not been able to extract their own energy sources, after they've been hog-tied by the carbon nazis, they'll have the funds to do so.
Oh, and thanks for the PING!, Delacon.
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