Posted on 05/21/2013 9:48:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer blamed the tornado that devastated Oklahoma on global warming during a Senate floor speech Tuesday, using the opportunity to push her own plan to tax carbon dioxide emissions.
“This is climate change,” Boxer said. “This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather: Not just hot weather, but extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago — it’s been a while — the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather.”
“Carbon could cost us the planet,” Boxer added, plugging her own carbon tax bill, co-sponsored by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “The least we could do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean energy.”
The massive tornado that hit Oklahoma had winds up to 200 miles per hour and killed at least 51 people as it tore through neighborhoods. USA Today reports that more than 120 people were receiving treatment at hospitals, including about 50 children.
Boxer is not the only Democrat to blame the tornado on global warming, as Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spent 15 minutes on the Senate floor ranting against Republicans for denying man-made global warming.
Boxer and Sanders introduced a carbon tax shortly after President Barack Obama threatened to use his executive authority to address global warming if Congress failed to act. Their bill would put a gradually rising fee on carbon dioxide emissions to fund green-energy projects such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass.
Another group of House and Senate Democrats have also introduced draft legislation that would also slap carbon emissions with a gradually rising fee to reduce the use of carbon-heavy energy sources, like coal.
“You’re going to have tornadoes and all the rest. We need to protect our people,” Boxer said on the Senate floor. “That’s our No. 1 obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that is gonna get worse and worse through the years.”
A study by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) argued that a revenue-neutral carbon tax could be a “cure worse than the disease.”
“The dismal record of the U.S. government in implementing efficient climate change policies is hardly evidence in favor of a massive new carbon tax (or cap-and-trade program),” said the study’s author, IER senior economist Robert Murphy in an accompanying statement. “[S]uch a new program will be abused in the political process, and will not be tailored to the recommendations of climate scientists and environmental economists.”
I am no longer amazed by the stupidity of democRATs/marxists/liberals/progressives.
5.56mm
guess “Wizard of Oz” was way before it’s time ...
I wonder why no one ever asks Bads exactly how a tax will prevent severe weather.
LOL! Good one! :-)
Is that Gore behind the curtain,, or is it gorge sore-ass?
Depraved
why woudl hse use that when tornado activity is at a 60 year LOW? Doesn’t she know that the FACTS REFUTE her asinine claim?
[[In the real world, severe weather is caused by the collision of cold air and hot air]]
Perhaps someoen shoudl ask her on camera “Can you please tell us which front (Cold or wamr) was ‘caused’ by global wamring? Especially when we have fronts colliding ALL TRHE TIME and have had them colliding for 1000’s of years?”
Using facts. Is that really allowed?
I am aware that reference to objective, peer-reviewed factual data is considered to be "unfair" among the Enlightened, and yet I persist.
It's because I hate people, birds, dolphins, and cute baby seals and thus wish oil slicks and clouds of sulfur to be unleashed upon the Earth in pursuit of evil Profit. Bwwwhhaaahahaaa!!!
I blame godless Democrats for all instances of divine retribution.
I’ve got more questions for her:
“If warming causes tornados, why don’t most of them happen in August?”
“Or, why aren’t there more Tornados in the tropics?”
“How many more tornados did we have this year, than we did in an average year in the 1970’s?”
“Explain how a tornado forms.”
A sane measure to save lives would be to build houses that don’t fall over when it gets windy.
Disgusting, evil ghoul
But think of those poor, exploited statistics!
Maybe if we just pay enough in taxes we can each get his own personal climate system. The fact that Boxer may be getting rich off the revenue should be of no concern...right?
I only employ honest statistics that want to work.;-)
HA!
Build storm shelters in OKC ?
Nope.
She would give money to her cronies to build more wind mills.
73 yrs. old come November...another one who has been in Congress too many years...term limits..are needed...
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