Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/22/2010 7:06:10 PM PST by Libloather
GOP ready to fight over global warming
By Steve Hargreaves, senior writer
November 22, 2010: 7:02 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's no secret that many Republicans are deeply skeptical of global warming.
"The earth will end only when God decides it's time to be over," Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., said while quoting the Bible in a House hearing last year. "This earth will not be destroyed by a flood."
Shimkus is now one of four contenders to head the House Committee on Energy and Commerce when the Republicans take the reins in January.
Also vying for the leadership post: Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, who apologized to BP for what he called a White House "shakedown" when it agreed to establishing the $20 billion Gulf oil spill trust fund; Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida, who wants to open up Alaska's wildlife refuge to drilling; and Michigan's Fred Upton.
Upton is considered the front-runner and probably the most moderate of the bunch. He has vowed to eliminate an offshoot of the committee, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
"The American people do not need Congress to spend millions of dollars to write reports and fly around the world," Upton wrote in a recent editorial. "We must terminate this wasteful committee."
The new Congress is not expected to do much on the energy front. A broad plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and use the revenue to fund alternative energy -- known as cap-and-trade -- is dead.
A spokesman for presumed Speaker of the House John Boehner said Republicans support all forms of energy development, including renewables and nuclear power.
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Curlicue light bulbs? Green cars? What a joke!
One thing that I'm not sure: what is the conservative solution on environmental issue? When I was still in school, we learned about Social Marginal Cost, etc., with Pigouvian Tax as one of the possible choice to address the issue. However, as a tax, it would affect a firm's ability to compete.
When it started it was called conservation. We were conserving the environment for future generations. That is what conservatism is all about. Using the wisdom of the past, to help preserve the wisdom of the future. Basically stated as; your parents were right about a lot of stuff. The conservation movement got hijacked however by political and money interests. Like Rush always says, who wants to breath dirty air ?
“When it started it was called conservation.”
When it was started the communists were deeply embedded in it.
Go look it up.
Never forget:
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
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I'd like to throw away this debunked blob and his junk science.
Gore Exposed
Yep. Progressive movement. Thanks for that.
Al Gore's favorite mad scientist Rajenda Pachauri
When we last heard from Al Gore's favorite mad scientist Rajenda Pachauri, he was trying to explain how his United Nations group on 'climate change' got so many facts wrong.
In fact, it appears the entire study that won them the Nobel prize is to fraught with errors, false conclusions and outright fabrications that Pachauri is now blaming others. Now we find that Rajendra Pachauri not only submitted a massively flawed scientific study but he knew that the claims were false and has been selling these lies anyway.
Set aside that Rajendra Pachauri has recommended an end to air travel then logged thousands of miles of chartered jets to accept awards for his fraudulent claims. Set aside that Rajendra Pachauri has recieved awards he does not deserve for touting false claims of eco-armageddon that affect the liberty of common folks and the seizure of earnings of tens of millions.
Rajendra Pachauri is making a fortune to sell his snake-oil. “The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 - an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report"
But wait, it gets better...a lot of the money is coming directly from the tax-payers who will suffer under the laws adopted as a result of the fraudulent studies they were forced to pay for and this means Rajendra Pachauri may face criminal charges for fraud. Rajendra Pachauri is an accomplice to Al Gore in the massive fraud of -Global Warming- /Climate Change.
The climate change hucksters have perverted science to gain fame and fortune for themselves and in the process deprive hundreds of millions of people their liberty and their earnings. Expose the doomsday cult of global warming before they do any more damage.
Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/...
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