Republican Heroes Will Stall Senate Dem's Junk Science Vote
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 31, 2009, 7:15 PM
All seven Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee will boycott the work session next week essentially stalling the democrat’s cap-&-tax junk science bill.
Reuters reported:
All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.
“Republicans will be forced not to show up” at Tuesday’s work session, said Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for Republican senators on the environment panel.
Under committee rules, at least two Republicans are needed for Chairwoman Barbara Boxer to hold the work sessions that would give senators an opportunity to amend the controversial legislation and then vote to approve it in the panel, which is controlled by President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats.
But Republicans are demanding more detailed economic analysis of the bill by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — a task that could take more than a month — before agreeing to participate in the work sessions that are called “mark ups.”
The seven Republicans have not indicated they ultimately would vote for the bill, which Boxer wants to move through her committee before December’s international climate-change summit in Copenhagen.
The democrat’s cap and trade policies will likely cost Americans $700 to $1,400 dollars per family per year. The Department of Energy estimated GDP losses would be between $444 billion and $1.308 trillion over the 21-year period. Cap and trade also could cost the US 4 million jobs.
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GrayRider commented:
Everything you hear about global warming that sounds terrifying is not true, and what is true is not particularly terrifying.
stacy commented:
Whatever they have to do to save our country is fine with me. If they want to consider impeaching this administration…I am for that too.
non_dhimmie commented:
The tea parties, Sarah, Michelle B, the blogs, I think the Republicans in Congress are trying to grow a spine…..help them
shiba07 commented:
it’s about time! finally the repubs are standing up to this farce, just wish they would do this sort of thing more often.
non_dhimmie commented:
…..Glenn Beck…..he is taking names and shouting them out…..The Mitt Romney (he is not King comment) rocked the t.v. He is making the Republicans spines grow……
Stranger commented:
“Global Warming” or “climate change,” it’s just another get rich quick scheme for the principals.
Essentially, the greenhouse effect raises the Earth’s temperature by 58 degrees, F. The major greenhouse gas is water vapor. Normally, the atmosphere contains 15,000 to 30,000 water vapor molecules per million.
The minor greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. The atmosphere contains less than 400 molecules of CO2 per million.
Each water vapor molecule has 7 times the greenhouse capacity of a CO2 molecule. So air effectively has 15,000 H2O molecules, plus the equivalent of another 57 H2O molecules from CO2.
The whole thing is preposterous on the face. And all the blather about forcings, feedbacks, etc., will not make one joule into one hundred.
Stranger
jonyjoe101 commented:
As long as there are internal combustion private cars, there will be greenhouse gases. Powerplants/ships/planes/even big rigs trucks are but a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gases.
So taxing all these businesses won’t do anything to reduce greenhouse gases.
Al Gore “the fat slob” is the only one getting rich with this cap and trade policy.
It would be a good christmas present for America if this abomination doesn’t pass.
bg commented:
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via TRBO
Lord Monckton and John Bolton on Climate Treaty
short cuts (albeit they’re just a
sample, too many links to post):
Soros: China Must Be Part Of The New World Order [bg @ 12:49 pm]
Very Cool Climate Data [bg @ 6:43 pm]
(be sure to check out The Great
Global Warming Swindle link)
==
jenny commented:
About time they started acting instead of just talking about it.
Algore $$$$$$$$$$$$ commented:
Please sign the Copenhagen Petition @ http://www.M4GW.com
BarbaraS commented:
Whether or not Obama attends this climate meeting in Copenhagen depends on whether this cap and trade passes. He does not want to go to this meeting empty handed. This meeting is the first step towards a world government based on climate change which he intends to head. This cap & trade bill is bad enough but there is an end game to it. They want to put such strictures on the US that they will kill our economy and take us back to the 30s with no way out.
Lori commented:
The whole Crap and trade thing is a crock. Normal Democratic voters know that as well as Republican voters. It’s the liberals and leftist that think this nonsense is true or at least pretend to think its true so they can make $ from it.
We are against it as much as you are. Unfortuantly the goony birds have the majority and are tyrants that want to fill their own wallets and those of their corrupt cronies. so this is all anyone that’s against it can do-what the Republicans are doing.
jainphx commented:
At face value, this is a rather CRAZY idea.
Lets assume, for argument, that a manufacturing plant is blowing soot and dangerous carcinogens out there smoke stacks, all they would have to do is buy carbon credits from Al Gore and continue on.
/ Makes sense to me.
Terry in Georgia commented:
Cap and Tax passing the House was the beginning of the revolt against Congress. August gave the constituents from home districts ample opportunity to clearly express their disgust with that disastrous tax which would destroy business and economy across the country. No US Senator in their right mind would pass this bill now, and I don’t care what kind of spin the eco-libtards put on it.
Global warming is the biggest hoax since the mid-’70s when we were doomed to the impending ice age. The whole issue of controlling the atmosphere of the entire universe is a sham.
I am so grateful for my US Senators and my Representative in the House. Fortunately, I can trust that they say and do what they believe, and they know that their bosses are in Georgia and not in Washington.
Stephen commented:
“Everything you hear about global warming that sounds terrifying is not true, and what is true is not particularly terrifying.”
The only things that are true about ‘Global Warming’ are that the Earth’s temperature has increased since 1650 (which was the coldest part of the Little Ice Age) and that human activities have increased the CO2 content in the atmosphere. That being said, what is false is the CO2 is the major climate mover. Water Vapor is, it, combined with clouds and fog makes up 95% of the greenhouse effect. Al Gore’s figures say humanity is responsible for 5.5% of the Greenhouse Effect….that is without factoring water vapor into the account. With it, humanity is responsible for about 0.28%. Given that the amount of heat that CO2 holds increases only 50% per double the hysteria is even more insane.
What is also false is that these are the highest levels of CO2 in the atmosphere….think 500,000,000 years ago when levels were 16 times higher than present, 22.8 times higher than the ‘pre industrial base’ or 6,160 ppm.
Also, 450,000,000 years ago, the earth was in the midst of a massive ice age, yet CO2 levels were 15 times as high as the current 385 ppm or 21.4 times the pre-industrial base of 270 ppm. There was no run away greenhouse effect as Earth is not Venus. Yes Venus is 900 degrees, however its atmosphere is 95% CO2 and 90 times as dense as that of Earth’s. I believe that the CO2 concentration on Venus is about 22,200,000 times as great as that on Earth. And these nuts think we can cause a chain reaction to reach those figures.
The CO2 levels associated with the Permian extinction 250,000,000 years ago were 10 times greater than the current levels or 14.3 times higher than the pre-industrial base. Just prior to the extinction event began, when numerous complex life forms existed, the levels were 5 times as high as the current level and 7.1 times as high as the pre-industrial level. It should be noted that in the period up to 250,000,000 years ago, life flourished, and oxygen amounted to some 30% of the atmosphere compared to 21% now.
pjean commented:
I prefer to call this thing “Crap and Trade”.
Stephen commented:
Food for thought:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M
“The very close correlation between sunspot number and temperature is very clear.”
“In the 19th century, when the world was relatively unindustrialized the level of CO2 in the atmosphere stood at around 285 ppm. By 2003 the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, primarily the result of industrialization and land use changes, stood at 376 ppm. The resultant influence on climate has been minimal. Computer models say that this increase in CO2 should have heated the Earth up significantly by this stage. However, very little warming that can be attributed to CO2 has actually occurred.”
“They observed that temperature would go up first comes up first, with CO2 coming up later. This correlation indicates that as one might expect as temperatures warm biological productivity increases resulting in more CO2 in the atmosphere. The lag between CO2 and rising or falling CO2 levels is something like 800 years.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/
“One clue we can see is that NASA has been reworking recent temperatures upwards and older temperatures downwards – which creates a greater slope and the appearance of warming.”
“Particularly troubling are the years from 1986-1998. In the 2007 version of the graph, the 1986 data was adjusted upwards by 0.4 degrees relative to the 1999 graph. In fact, every year except one from 1986-1998 was adjusted upwards, by an average of 0.2 degrees. If someone wanted to present a case for a lot of recent warming, adjusting data upwards would be an excellent way to do it.”
tsb commented:
Jim – who are the GOP senators so that we can thank them and encourage them?
Chris commented:
Matt Taibbi’s takedown of Goldman Sachs in “notorious right-wing rag” Rolling Stone also mentioned that GS is set to make a mint and blow up yet another market bubble once Crap and Trade passes. So if we actually manage to recover from the housing bubble, we’ll have to go through all this again in a few years when the “green” bubble pops.
Brave new world, comrades!
Sandy commented:
Thank you Republicans — you stand with the people and the people will remember next November.
Stephen commented:
The math for how much more CO2 there is on Venus is below. I put this up because the ‘experts’ warn of ‘irreversible damage to the environment’ and sometimes of a ‘runaway greenhouse effect.’
385 divided by 1,000,000=0.000385
385 parts per million=0.000385
0.000385–current level
0.00385—x10
0.0385—-x100
0.385—–x1,000
3.85——-x10,000
38.5——-x100,000
95.0——-x246,753
Now to multiply the Earth’s atmosphere by 90 to match that of Venus:
Final figure=22,207,792
Yeah right Al Gore and Greenpeace, yeah right.
Elektra commented:
Thank the Republicans for embracing Conservatives and embace those Patriots still standing by standing behind them in November! Remember your dollars are votes, too!
Just_Saying commented:
Why is everything rush-passed, and no time to really consider? Why must it all be done NOW?????
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Delle commented:
The democrats have been locking the republicans out of all committee meetings. I don’t really see how it will make a difference if these republicans boycott the hearing.
I am glad, though, to see them doing something!
J commented:
Tell me what the difference will be between the dems locking the republicans out of the committee meetings and the republicans boycotting those meetings? Isn’t it the same? Doesn’t it mean that the dems RULE no matter what?
Aitch748 commented:
I think the Republicans need to start going public with the fact that the party in power, the Democrats, are locking them out of all committee meetings. People need to understand this, and to understand that the Republicans have had effectively almost NO INPUT AT ALL this year.