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Cannes: Annan and Geldof kick off climate change campaignA new global campaign to halt climate change, dubbed ‘tck tck tck’, has been launched at Cannes by Kofi Annan, Bob Geldof and Havas global CEO David Jones.
The campaign will be backed by a reworking of Aussie classic ‘Beds are burning’ by Midnight Oil, with lyrics reworked by the band, and sung by a host of stars.
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The campaign urges people globally to become ‘climate allies’ and apply pressure to world leaders to reach a binding deal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December this year.
Supporters can show their support for the campaign with dogtags that can be worn bearing the ‘tck tck tck’ logo.
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Bob Geldof said: “The relationship between climate change, poverty, and development is self evident. I have seen myself war, famine, and disease that have all in part been fuelled by changing climate. It is critical therefore that in Copenhagen world leaders recognise this and tell us precisely how they intend to deal with it.”
The ‘tck tck tck’ logo will be freely available for placement on to any marketing content at the website www.timeforclimatejustice.org .
Electric car sharing in Baltimore | Donal's BlogBut, EV range claims always bear clarification. The Maya 300 can probably travel 120 miles at 30-40 mph under good road conditions. The staffer told us that driving at highway speeds would probably lower that range to 80 miles, and that ordinary recharging will take 6 hours. (He also mentioned they were still waiting for DOT approval to drive at higher speeds than NEVs.) Also, cold weather always reduces battery performance. There is also the issue of proper charging to maintain battery lifespan, which I suspect will cost early adopters a lot of money:
"The lifespan of a deep cycle battery will vary considerably with how it is used, how it is maintained and charged, temperature, and other factors. In extreme cases, it can vary to extremes - we have seen L-16's killed in less than a year by severe overcharging, ... We have seen gelled cells destroyed in one day when overcharged with a large automotive charger. We have seen golf cart batteries destroyed without ever being used in less than a year because they were left sitting in a hot garage without being charged."
Anyway, I signed a release and drove the Maya around the block. It was easy to start, the gearing was Forward - Neutral - Reverse, and it was very quiet - just a low whine on acceleration. But the very small tires made for bumpy handling over the ordinary manholes and irregularities of Key Highway. I'd be afraid to take the Maya across Pulaski Highway's terrible potholes, or at higher speeds on the beltway.
House Passes Energy Overhaul Bill 219-212Also Friday, the House of Representatives phone switchboard went down as conservative radio hosts and congressmen made direct pleas for voters to dial the Capitol to voice their opposition to the bill.
"Phone traffic has increased to a level where some callers are receiving an 'all circuits are busy now, please try back again later' message," communications director Jeff Ventura said via e-mail.
Michael Jackson 'working on new climate change song before death' - TelegraphMichael Jackson was working on a song about climate change in the days before his death, his friend Deepak Chopra has disclosed.
Frost Hurts Central Georgia Blueberry CropsBlueberry farmer Ted Wach of Wach Farms, says frost conditions at his Bolingbroke farm took out 99 percent of his berries.
"The freeze came and just about everyone of them that we had. There's barely enough out there that we got out there that my wife got to make a pie," said Wach. He and his wife bought the farm 10 years ago. Opening it up each summer for people to come out and pick blueberries from their 2.5 acres. While they've had setbacks before, Wach says he's never seen anything like this before.
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"Once you get down to about 20, 22 degrees and lower, your ability to protect that crop is severely reduced," said Peed. Wach agrees, but he says he hates turning away the 1,500 to 2,000 people that make the trek to his farm to pick berries. Wach says he sees people from Florida, Tennessee and all over Georgia.
Young, gifted [and building your life around the greatest scientific fraud of all time] - Times OnlineWhen a capacity for ferocious hard work allies itself with green campaigning, the result is Kate Hampton. She has been made director of climate-change policy at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and before that worked at Climate Change Capital and Friends of the Earth.
[Grandiose delusions:] Ag Secretary visits home in Iowa Vilsack told the Des Moines Register that, "you can't talk about climate change unless you talk about the USDA."
TheHill.com - Boehner: Climate bill a 'pile of s--t'Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about Speaker Nancy Pelosi's landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday.
When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of s--t."
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Pelosi's office declined to comment on Boehner's jab. But one Democratic aide quipped, "What do you expect from a guy who thinks global warming is caused by cow manure?"
Even though Sen. Majorty Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) holds the bill's fate in his hands, House Republicans intend to hammer Speaker Pelosi's signature climate-change measure over recess.
And GOP Conference Chairman Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.) said "we have only just begun to fight” as he left the Capitol Friday night.
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One Democrat was upset that his leaders would needlessly force vulnerable Dems to vote for a bill that will come back to haunt them. Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor (D) voted against the measure that he says will die in the Senate.
"A lot of people walked the plank on a bill that will never become law," Taylor told The Hill after the gavel came down.
Calif. board delays decision on whether to impose carbon fee on industry, pledges July action - Carbon Offsets DailySACRAMENTO, CALIF. — California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation’s first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.
The Melting Pot Project: The Least Popular Bill in AmericaSo, let's get this straight. Environmentalists don't want the bill. Businesses certainly don't want it. Families and individuals shouldn't, because it's apparently not going to solve any climate problems and will cost them a pretty penny to accomplish all of that non-solving. So who in the country does want this legislative epic fail to make it through the Senate as well? Probably no more than 219 people, the same who voted for Waxman-Markey after being bought off with more pork than you can find at a Texas barbeque.
Commentary » Blog Archive » High Theater: Cap-and-Trade Sneaks ByWhat a scene. But alas it finally ended and the vote ensued. We knew where this was likely to wind up –after all the White House was engaged in some first-rate arm-twisting. Many Democrats who vowed to stand up the to White House received a phone call and melted like butter.
Republicans, encouraged by a stem-winder from Eric Cantor, voted overwhelmingly but not unanimously against the bill, declaring it to be madness to vote for a huge tax, job-killing bill in a recession. Democrats lost a stunning forty-four votes from their side — members who simply didn’t want to face the music back home. (The Democrats had to go so far as to fetch Patrick Kennedy, who had been out for rehab, and John Lewis, who had heart surgery, and delay the resignation of Ellen Tauscher, who is heading to the State Department.)
Weekend at Henry’s - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineThat was quite something, seeing Waxman & co. drag this lifeless, increasingly fetid corpse around, pretending that it's got legs of its own. And I must admit to complete sympathy with those who are upset that, were it not for those eight Yeas who self-identify as Republican, the bill's champions wouldn't have had to waste their time cleaning up Patrick Kennedy for an outing; the jig would've been up.
And so . . . 219-212. That's priceless — putting aside my recollection of commenting, upon hearing that eight or so Republicans had been given a "pass" on the bill by GOP leadership, that "This could be an eight-vote vote. You never know. It could be that close."
It's a rule: When people refer to the alleged mountain of evidence confirming AGW, they have absolutely no idea what that evidence might beHerbert should do his homework on climate
Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert says he needs "conclusive" evidence that human-caused climate change is real. We're not sure how much evidence is needed to convince him, if, indeed, there ever could be enough. It seems his mind is made up by a political ideology that leads him to disbelieve the virtual mountain of evidence that has already been presented to the world. In the editorial "Stubborn denial," The Tribune Editorial Board pointed out that thousands of the most respected climate scientists in the world agree that the globe is warming and that carbon emissions from power plants, cars, homes and industry are the cause. In fact, the consensus is overwhelming. If Herbert wants convincing scientific evidence, he has only to study the numerous reports available online. If he is still unconvinced, then we must conclude that his doubts only reflect an ideological mistrust of science.
[2F09] A related exchange from "Homer the Great"Homer: I'd give anything to get into the Stonecutters. Lisa: What do they do there, Dad? Abe: I'm a member -- Homer: What do they do? What _don't_ they do? [laughs] Oh, they do so many things they never stop. Oh, the things they do there, my stars. Lisa: You don't know _what_ they do there, do you? Homer: Not as such, no.
Skeptical Inquirer Abandons Reason, Embraces Global Warming | The Resilient EarthThe tenor of the whole SI edition is perhaps best summed up by another quote from the AAAS article: “[Gore] was mind-boggling in his sincerity,” said enraptured CSI Fellow Leon Lederman, “what Gore did for me the other night because he was so passionate...was [make me determined] never to go anywhere anymore without global warming as my chief topic.” What reasoned discourse! And from a CSI Fellow! This isn't rational thought, it is hero worship verging on hysteria.
By including such tripe editor Frazier stands revealed as a global warming true believer, not a skeptical scientific observer who demands solid empirical evidence to support hypotheses. The debate is on-going but Skeptical Inquirer is not reporting on it, it has chosen to side with the global warming alarmists.
It seems that when the publishing organization of SI changed its name from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) to the Committee for Scientific Investigation more was lost than a number of words—it seems a good deal of integrity as sacrificed as well. I do not intend to renew my membership with this organization and I urge others to critically review their affiliation with CSI.
On the House floor | Washington ExaminerBy all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.
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Global Warming is apparently so urgent that we can't even wait until members of Congress know what they're voting on.
Blue Crab Boulevard » Unsettled ScienceThe cult managed a seven vote victory in the lower chamber of the US Congress. Now is the time to start pushing back on the science - hard. Because these are, again, unsettled times.
UPDATE: For example, one might want to read this little gem that punctures the “science” of global warming.
Has the white House decided global warming is a losing issue? | Washington ExaminerRead the President's remarks Friday night after the House passed the measure most Capitol Hill staff and press referred to as the Waxman-Markey climate bill. You'll notice some words that the President never speaks: "climate," "warming," "greenhouse," "carbon," "cap-and-trade," or "emissions."
If you went by President Obama's words alone, you would think this bill had nothing to do with capping greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to battle climate change. He has vague talk of praising "action" and "change" over "inaction" and the "status quo." He talks about "clean energy," and once about "pollution." But he completely ignores the aspect of this bill that garnered almost all of the media, lobbyist, and congressional attention: that the bill, for the first time in history, regulates the emission of carbon dioxide from many U.S. sources.
Does this reflect a White House perception that climate change is a losing issue?
Well, the chart at right..., from a poll taken by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (a group that did not oppose the bill) shows that only 13% of those polled would put up with even a 10% increase in electricity bill for the sake of reducing emissions.
Did Your Representative Vote For The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History?As we’ve noted, yesterday brought the troubling news that Members of the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill.
Some have called it the largest tax increase in U.S. history, and some have called it an economic suicide note. The policy of cap-and-trade is indeed disastrous, and for whatever their reason, here is the quick list of House Members who voted to raise your taxes and take a sledgehammer to our economy.
It may be worth asking them why...
Oh, That’s All?: Obama on his cap-and-trade nonsense:Even assuming that his numbers are true and that they shouldn’t actually be higher, that’s $160.60 a year, per American.$321 for a married couple. Per year.
That’s your contribution against climate change/global warming, good citizens.
Without India and China on board, of course, this bill is utterly useless and amounts to nothing more than the Left’s gift to Gaia/Mother Earth. Praise Gaia! Down with the industrial revolution!
Polar bear expert barred by global warmists -Christopher Booker - TelegraphDr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".
Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful". His signing of the Manhattan Declaration – a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents – was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG".
So, as the great Copenhagen bandwagon rolls on, stand by this week for reports along the lines of "scientists say polar bears are threatened with extinction by vanishing Arctic ice". But also check out Anthony Watt's Watts Up With That website for the latest news of what is actually happening in the Arctic. The average temperature at midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping. After last year's recovery from its September 2007 low, this year's ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time. The bears are doing fine. [Via Climate Change Fraud]
NC Media Watch: First it was save the plant, now it is jobs, jobs jobs.On Friday the House of Representative passed HR 2454, a bill intended to address climate change, however the mission may have changed. The Speaker prodded Democrats to take potentially risky votes to support the party’s top priorities, urged members to remember what the legislation is about: “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” She then urged members to vote for creating more job by passing the largest tax bill in US History.
I hope that someone can explain to me how the US is going to compete in global markets by increasing the cost of all US products through excessive energy taxes. If we cannot compete, they there will be no new jobs and more companies will be moving there operations off shore to countries with lower cost energy and no costly CO2 controls. How this is going to create more jobs? Really? Please explain?
A pipedream of six turbines a day until 2020 - TelegraphLast Wednesday, two days before our Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, told us that motorists could help save the planet by changing more quickly to a lower gear, his underling Lord Hunt made one of the most absurd claims that can ever have been uttered by a British minister. Solemnly reported by the media, he said that by 2020 he hopes to see thousands more wind turbines round Britain's coasts, capable of producing '25 gigawatts (GW)" of electricity, enough to meet "more than a quarter of the UK's electricity needs".
In three ways this was remarkable. First, as most of us know by now, thanks to the intermittency of the wind, the actual output from 25GW of turbine capacity would only average out at 7.5GW. Since Britain's peak demand is 56GW, Lord Hunt's turbines would meet barely a seventh of our needs, just over half what he claims.
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The third, perhaps most disturbing point is that the media dutifully reported Lord Hunt's absurd claims without asking any of the elementary questions that could have revealed that he was talking utter nonsense. One cannot of course expect Opposition MPs to take an intelligent interest in such matters. But if journalists allow ministers to get away with talking such tosh, the slide into unreality can only continue.
Congressional Memo - Climate Change Bill May Be Election-Year Issue - NYTimes.comRepublicans obviously saw the parallels between the 1993 vote and the one Friday. As the gavel came down on their failed push to derail the bill, Republicans chanted “B.T.U., B.T.U.” and seemed almost in a celebratory mood.
“On the floor, it felt like we won,” said Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a party political strategist. “They put a lot of guys on the line.”
The votes were strikingly similar. In 1993, the legislation containing the Clinton energy tax was adopted on a 219-to-213 vote with 38 Democrats defecting. On Friday, the House bill was approved 219 to 212, with 44 Democrats defecting.
In an indication of the queasiness among some Democrats, House approval came only after a determined campaign to sway wavering lawmakers. It took personal intervention by the president and vice president; members of the cabinet; the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel; Ms. Pelosi; and even last-minute agreements were struck on the House floor.
News Flash! The great global warming debate with James Hansen is now offSo the debate that the world had been waiting for won't happen after all. I think it is too bad although I had reservations. If I had to pick a defender of the sceptic position I doubt I would pick an oil man or a coal man. They would have way too much baggage whereas a scientist that was independent of either could wail away not that Blankenship wouldn't. One could only hope that someone like Lord Christopher Monckton will someday get his wish to debate Hansen or Gore but only time will tell. Monckton has been trying to get Al Gore to debate him for years now with no luck. Recently he came close but was denied the opportunity at the last minute after flying here expressly for that purpose. Maybe the iron is hot and now is the time. I'll forward this to Lord Monckton and .... who knows?
Lord Monckton has agreed to debate James Hansen...Well, I wrote him and 10 hours later I got my answer:
Monckton: "Dear Mr. Griffin - Of course I'd be delighted to debate Jim Hansen. In a democracy, that's how things work - people debate one another in public, so that people get to hear both sides. One of the most disfiguring tactics of the group driving the "global warming" scare is to refuse to debate those who disagree, on the ground that that would give their opponents too much exposure .... So do suggest it to Hansen. He may decide to go ahead with it, and the debate would attract massive publicity precisely because it would be so rare. ... - M of B"
So, Dr. Hansen, you were prepared to debate Mr. Blankenship. Will you accept this challenge from Christopher Monckton? The venue should be large enough to allow those interested to attend. I am sure there is something in the New York area that could accommodate such an event. Say... Yankee Stadium or Madison Square Garden. We can work out the details to your satisfaction.
Investor's Business Daily -- CarbongateClimate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?
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This was supposed to be the most transparent administration ever. Yet as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Waxman-Markey bill, the largest tax increase in U.S. history on 100% of Americans, an attempt was made to suppress a study shredding supporters' arguments.
Left-wing economist Paul Krugman weighs in: Temperature trends - NYTimes.comThe fitted line in the figure is a 3rd-degree polynomial, but any sort of smoothing would tell you that there is a massive upward trend.
Of course, trend-spotting is no substitute for causal modeling; and the models are getting truly scary in their implications.
Mother Lode Congressional Leaders Speak Out Against Cap And Trade- myMotherLode.comWashington, CA -- While a cap and trade climate change bill narrowly passed in the U.S. House Friday, it was adamantly opposed by 19th District Representative George Radanovich and 3rd District Representative Dan Lungren.
“I rise in strong opposition to the global ‘cap and tax’ bill that is on the floor today,” Radanovich stated on the House floor. “We don’t have to look any further than my own beloved state of California to see environmental alarmism at its worst. California has adopted its own renewable energy standard and carbon cap and trade scheme, and it is killing businesses and driving people out of the state in record numbers.”
Obama implores Senate to pass climate bill - Yahoo! News"We passed transformational legislation, which will take us into the future," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after the 219-212 vote.
"For some it was a very difficult vote because the entrenched agents of the status quo were out there full force, jamming the lines in their districts and here, and they withstood that," Pelosi said.
YouTube - Going Green with Cap and Trade!See who cares if cost of most goods go higher?
And household income levels all go down?
and if estimated environmental impact is not really calculable [Via Planet Gore]
Pressure on Turnbull to clarify view on climateMr Turnbull has endorsed Labor's target to cut emissions by up to 25 per cent by 2020, depending on international agreements.
But faced with disunity within his own ranks about the threat from global warming, he said his party would not clarify whether it would support Labor's legislation until after the US position was finalised and Copenhagen global climate talks in December.
Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt welcomed passage of the US bill, but he suggested the Coalition would still not be signing any "blank cheques" and the US legislation confirmed that it would be wrong to press ahead in the absence of an international deal.
Climate Change [Scam] League TableWho is leading in the Challenge of our Age, the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? HaraBara compared the commitments and targets announced by various countries. We adjusted them to a common baseline: Emission reductions between 1990 and 2020. (We used the emission data in FCCC/SBI/2008/12 found here.) Here are the results:
CQ Politics | Balance of Power - An Old Obama Quote Steps on the Climate Change MessageHouse Democrats have their talking point about the cost of the climate change bill, and they’ve been hammering it all day. The average family would pay about “the cost of a postage stamp per day,” as House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland said on Fox News this morning.
But House Republicans have spent the day repeating a different quote from President Obama: that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under his proposal for a cap and trade system for limiting carbon emissions. “President Obama has said himself that, under this cap-and-trade plan, electricity rates will skyrocket,” Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., said at a press conference. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., repeated the charge on the House floor.
"Good" climate bill appears doomed in the Senate | Midwest VoicesPresident Barack Obama campaigned Saturday for the positive climate bill narrowly passed Friday by the U.S. House.
Sorry, but the measure as written is probably doomed in the Senate.
In fact, from here, the bill aimed at reducing harmful emissions and spurring growth in renewable energy can only get worse as the Senate tinkers with it.
[Purported leaders of] America's hunters and anglers [endorse scientific fraud to gain access to climate swindle loot]"We are one step closer to securing the full array of tools needed to safeguard our nation's wildlife and natural resources from the harmful impacts of climate change," said Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. "Today's victory would not have been possible without the steadfast support of America's hunters and anglers, and their willingness to put politics aside to do what is right in the interest of wildlife."
"Trout and salmon, waterfowl, and upland game birds are at ground zero for adverse impacts of climate change," said Steve Moyer, Vice President for Trout Unlimited. "One of the best things about this bill is that it gives our state, federal and tribal agencies the guidance and resources they need to protect and restore the forests, lakes, wetlands, rivers and other habitats that fish and wildlife need to survive in the face of a changing climate."
January '09: Pheasants Forever's 2008-2009 Winter UpdateHarsh winter combined with habitat losses create tough times for pheasants.
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Indeed, a study completed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources shows that good habitat has the ability to produce a 96 percent hen survival rate during a mild winter and a 43 percent hen survival rate during a snowy winter.
Nationwide Protest against Obama’s Cap and TradeThe time for a nationwide protest against our “lawmakers” has come—I am no longer referring to them as our representatives as they have stopped representing We-the-People. The volume of calls placed on Friday to the US Capitol switchboard and our Congressional Reps again shut it down and voice mailboxes were full. The calls placed were reported to be 10-1 AGAINST Obama‘s and Pelosi’s plan to raise energy prices to we the consumers by at least 100% and in most cases 150-200%. Despite We-the-People (now We-the-Peons) telling the House of Representatives to vote “NO”, after reportedly being strong-armed and threatened by Pelosi and Obama House members voted “YES”. And, they voted on this bill that most of them admit they DID NOT READ!
Note: It is clear that these Representatives now represent ONLY Obama and Pelosi. They no longer represent their constituencies. And the ones who benefit from this legislation are those who are invested in “alternative energies” that will do nothing to improve any energy resources but, will merely allow the Federal Government to charge We-the-Peons more money. By the way, most of these “alternative energy” sources are either highly unreliable (for example wind doesn’t blow all of the time and the energy produced cannot be stored for future use) or cost far more than traditional sources. Alternative energies also tend to use more resources than traditional energy.
PoliGazette » House Approves Obama’s Useless Climate Change BillFriday, the United States House of Representatives approved president Barack Obama’s, Rep.Waxman’s and Rep. Markey’s climate change bill. With the bill, Obama delivers on his promise to radical leftists last year to ‘fight global warming’ by driving entire businesses into bankruptcy.
CQ Politics | Pelosi Used Personal Touch To Win Climate [Swindle] Vote“This proves that when she really cares about something and makes it a priority that her caucus is going to be listening,” said Lisa Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a Pelosi ally who is vice chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
In addition to talking about the issue, Wasserman Schultz said Pelosi stressed the importance of the issue to Democrats. “It was a conscience vote. If we didn’t come here to do this, then what did come here to do?” Wasserman Schultz said.
Anna G. Eshoo , D-Calif., one of Pelosi’s longtime allies, said the Speaker had made clear to her leadership team and Democrats that she was determined to move the legislation.
“This is her flagship issue. She made clear the work won’t stop until the last vote is cast,” Eshoo said.
GOP Offers ‘Michael Jackson’ Cap & Trade Alternative(2009-06-27) — Senate Republicans today introduced an “innovative alternative” to the 1,300-page cap-and-trade climate change bill which passed the House 219-212 virtually-unread Friday night as the nation sat transfixed by wall-to-wall coverage of the death of an iconic pop singer.
David Fiderer, Huffington Post: The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill | AlterNetOne of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.
Only Cap-and-Trade will save AmericaWhat is interesting is that America is the most innovative country in the whole. When challenged, America answers loudly. The people who oppose challenging American businesses seem not to have the confidence in their industriousness. As we have seen in recent months, the free market needs guidance or else it runs itself into the ground. And when it does, it takes everyone down with it.
Climate Change Bill to Heat Up Senate | Green Business | ReutersDiana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, clearly lays out much of the opposition's view in a column published by Reuters, highlighting issues such as the lack of technology to meet the would-be requirements under the legislation: "Meeting these standards now is technologically impossible without radically reducing our standards of living, but Congress is hoping that technology will magically appear as needed." As well as the effect it would have on businesses: "Not only does the bill penalize American firms through higher costs, it gives firms a financial incentive to move abroad through 'offsets,' activities that supposedly lower carbon emissions elsewhere."
EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming - Political Hotsheet - CBS NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.
How Confucianism could curb global warming | csmonitor.comKingston, Ontario - Now here's a curveball to secular Western policy experts: China's intellectuals are openly debating the role of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in promoting the Communist Party's vision of a harmonious society and ecologically sustainable economic development.
Climate change could help terrorists against India: PachauriMhow (Madhya Pradesh), June 27 (IANS) Climate change poses threats to India beyond the sphere of environment as passages opened up by the melting snows in the northern Himalayas could be used by terrorists to infiltrate into the country, eminent environmentalist R.K. Pachauri said here Saturday.
“Melting snows in the north open up passages for terrorists. The melting glaciers will affect water supply in the subcontinent’s northern part, thus sharpening the possibility of conflict with our neighbours,” Pachauri said.
Questions and answers about the U.S. climate bill Q: Who opposes this approach, and why?
A: Republicans, some farm groups, some environmentalists, the oil industry, which feels it has received too few free permits, and some moderate Democrats.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » AOL Hot Seat Poll: Do you support cap-and-trade?[Currently 15,477 votes, 88% No]
Sheesh of the day: Cantor says removing CO2 a ‘noble endeavor’ « Green Hell Blog
Amid a pretty could floor speech against Waxman-Markey, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) inexplicably said that “removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a noble endeavor.”
God save us from our friends…
EPW POLICY BEAT: SPEAKER PYRRHUSAs House Democratic leaders scramble to find 218 ‘ayes’ for Waxman-Markey, EPW Policy Beat hit the books to find the appropriate historical analogy for today’s (or tomorrow’s) vote. As with the vote on the BTU tax in 1993, Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Waxman likely will achieve victory on their massive energy tax, but by the barest of margins. And in fulfilling their green vision for national energy policy, they could very well imperil the political fortunes of moderate Democrats in conservative and rural districts, and hence, their majority. In other words, the victory will be costly. It will be, in short, a Pyrrhic victory—so named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army, during the Pyrrhic War, suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans in two key battles.
McCotter: W-M ‘nuts on its face’ « Green Hell BlogRep. Thadeus McCotter (R-MI) declaimed Waxman-Markey as “nuts on its face.”
Inslee: W-M opponents lack imagination « Green Hell BlogRep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) today said that opponents of Waxman-Markey lack imagination. We went to the moon, why can’t we get off foreign oil, he asked.
Waxman-Markey is Obama photo-op « Green Hell BlogA Texas congressman said that W-M is no more than a photo-op for Obama in Copenhagen while the Chinese and Indians laugh behind our back.
YouTube - Rep. Broun: Climate Change Is A Hoax
Over-Under | Coyote Blog...after putting this huge effective tax on refiners, which will also in some cases force refiners to shut down capacity and produce less fuel, how long will it be before a politician starts to demagogue oil companies for rising gasoline prices and/or fuel shortages?
This is at the end of the day why Congress wanted cap-and-trade rather than a carbon tax. By putting the tax on unsympathetic targets like oil companies, Congress and Obama can pretend that inevitable consumer price increases are the oil companies greedy fault, and not related to the actions in Washington.
Picking Winners | Coyote Blog...No, the reason for this is purely political — every representative has an electric utility in their district lobbying and paying campaign contributions, but few have organized lobbies of automobile drivers. And so, rather than pushing for fuel shifts from coal to gas or nuclear in power generation, this bill will primarily achieve its meager results from making it more expensive for people to drive.
There's Still a Long Road Ahead for U.S. Climate Legislation No Matter What Happens to the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJAmid all the arguing, though, here’s one fact that no one disputes: No matter what happens today, this bill is a long way from becoming law.
That’s because the Senate isn’t anywhere close to passing a climate-change bill—and has scuttled attempts to speed up the process. The top Republican on the Senate environment committee, noted global warming skeptic James Inhofe, has said flatly that the Senate version of the bill won’t pass. “It’s just not going to happen,” the Oklahoma Republican said recently.
The Senate legislation’s future may depend in part on what happens in the House today—not just whether the House version passes, but by how much. Earlier this year, most experts expected the bill to sail through the House without much difficulty, putting pressure on the Senate to act as well. Instead, today’s vote looks too close to call.
“Without a resounding House endorsement, I think the Senate is going to view this as too risky to take up in any significant way,” says Bill Durbin, head of carbon research for the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.
American Thinker Blog: Cap-and-trade: The biggest scam of allIt is truly amazing that anyone really familiar with the so-called cap-and-trade bill could actually accept this legislation or in Congress, vote for it.
First, it is erroneous to think that it would have any effect on global warming because carbon dioxide is not the cause, it is the effect but unfortunately that battle won in the halls of science is lost in the halls of congress.
H.R. 2454: The Cap & Tax Travesty[Rush Limbaugh] The point is the Environmental Protection Agency, Obama Administration, they don't care about the truth in any of this. This is not about global warming. It is not about climate change. It's about nothing but taxes. It's taxing everything they can get their hands on. It's revenue generation. Obama yesterday even had the gall to call this a jobs bill. Well, I'll tell you what green jobs did to Spain. George Will wrote about it yesterday. The stimulus bill was supposed to be a jobs bill and it didn't turn out to be a jobs bill, and this is not a jobs bill. This is a jobs-killing bill...
Rep. Paul Broun Calls Global Warming a “Hoax”, GOP applauds | NowPublic News CoverageDuring the floor debate this morning over the historic American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) received a round of applause from GOP colleagues when he claimed that man-made global warming is a “hoax” with “no scientific consensus.”
Voting For Economic SuicideThe spectacle of the House voting for a massive tax increase and a 300 page amendment they could not have read is a low point for post-segregationist Congresses. Never have so few read so little about so important a proposal, and yet brazen forward oblivious to the the deeply embarrassing charade it presents to the world. Banana republics make a better show of governing themselves than did the U.S. House of Representatives today.
The only good thing about this disaster for the country's reputation is the undeniable message it sends to voters about just how hard left the Democrats are and at the same time just how irresponsible the Obama/Pelosi/Reid majority is. Not only does today's debacle strengthen the case for a massive course correction and return to balance in D.C. in 2010, it also should increase resistance to the similarly radical attempt to remake American medicine into a single-payer, government-dominated, Canada-style plan. A majority so obviously indifferent to the substance of "legislation" they pass should not be trusted with the medicine that Americans need to live well and long.
No Party Tag for Conyers' Wife; Just 20 Secs on 'Cap & Trade' Amidst 95% Jackson | NewsBusters.orgABC also uniquely found a little time, a mere 20 seconds, to mention House action on President Obama's “cap and trade” bill. As noted by the MRC's Business and Media Institute, for months the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have barely covered the bill “that would cost each family $1,241 a year.” CBS and NBC kept up the near-blackout again Friday night. Gibson outlined how “the bill would impose limits pollution from power plants and factories and force a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy,” but also noted: “Critics charge it will drive up energy costs for consumers.”
Cap and Trade Sham Passes « Welcome to GayConservative.orgI will speak more on this subject in the coming days, but I wanted to focus on the vote. There were 42 Democrats who sided with the GOP in an attempt to defeat this bill. Before you get all giddy – realize that a few of those included leftist nuts like Dennis Kucinich who felt that the bill didn’t go far enough. Mostly, though, the Democrats were conservatives or Dems in unsafe House seats who heard the message from their constituents loud and clear. Apparently, the House switchboard melted down with people calling in to voice their displeasure over this legislative piece of crap. The overwhelming number of calls were reported to be in opposition to this irresponsible sham.
YouTube - Boehner Exposes Waxman-Markey "Bureaucratic Nightmare" On House FloorSpeaking on the House Floor, Boehner Exposes the "Bureaucratic Nightmare" of Waxman-Markey
House Passes Nightmare “Cap And Tax” BillThis is far worse than just a “new tax” as Republicans are complaining - this is the total takeover of the American economy by private banking interests through the carbon trading system.
It is also the entrée for the complete and total subjegation of any freedoms we had left and the beginning of nightmare regulation and suffocating control over every aspect of our personal lives by millions of green stasi tasked with enforcing impossible to attain goals of 80% carbon dioxide reduction - all based on the manufactured threat of global warming.
Twitter / Jim BerneyI absolutely don't get why anyone is against the concept of global warming.. what's it to them? Who loses??
Q & A: 'Cap and trade' central to climate-change bill - Los Angeles TimesReporting from Washington -- The sweeping energy and global warming bill passed by the House on Friday was as complicated as it was contentious. The measure started the day at 1,200 pages -- and that was before lawmakers adopted a 300-page amendment.
We Are So Screwed | bRight & Early# The church of Global Warming has convinced 219 U.S. Representatives that they can legislate temperature. News Flash – you can’t.
# They are trying to sell this as a jobs bill. That’s true. The jobs are in India and China.
# If you believe this bill is a good idea you probably believe the Reps who voted for it read it. Evelyn Wood couldn’t have read this bill/amendment in the time they had.
# There are eight Republicans who voted for this farce. They need to go. Not a dime for their campaigns, not a vote for their reelection, not a good word for any of them...
Michigan Democrats: 493 Days & Counting | motorcitytimes.com...This elite group of congressmen, from the State Of Michigan, voted for the SINGLE BIGGEST TAX HIKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY during a severe RECESSION.
They voted to regulate the very gas you and I exhale. Why? To combat global warming.
One thing that these elite Democrats need to understand is that they have just voted to massively raise taxes on citizens to combat a problem that doesn’t exist. Monroe, Michigan in John Dingell’s district saw a 0.23 degree DROP in its mean temperature over the last 10 years. Monroe’s warmest day in the last decade was in August 2001, almost eight years ago.
Illinois Review: Kirk's "Yes" on Cap and TradeIs there any chance the IL GOP's conservative base would forgive this vote and work for a Kirk candidacy?
Or has Kirk sealed his political future in Illinois politics with a yes vote on the Democrats' "Cap and Trade"?
NOTE: We've just learned that an impromptu protest against the Cap and Trade vote will be held Saturday at 1:00 PM at the Federal Plaza, 230 S. Dearborn, in Chicago. Spread the word.
Daily Kos comment: 'If Reid is smart, he will bury this bill. Never try to pass an anti-global warming bill after the coldest year in a decade' | GORE LIEDIf Reid is smart, he will bury this bill.
Never try to pass an anti-global warming bill after the coldest year in a decade and never pass a tax increase in the middle of the worst recession in a generation.
The Democrats are going to need every dime of political capital they have to pass health care reform.
Houston Chronicle’s Loren Steffy on Waxman-Markey (can this straight shooter be added to the newspaper’s editorial board?) — MasterResourceLast month, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas released a study that found most Texans would pay about $27 a month more under Obama’s plan. That’s a little more than the cost of “a postage stamp a day” that Obama predicts it will cost, even accounting for the rise in first-class postage.
Waxman-Markey passes with help of 8 traitorsFirst of all, this may not be a bad thing because it’s a tremendous weapon to use against many Democrats and the 8 Republicans who voted for the bill. (More on that in a minute.)
I think it’s 50/50 whether the bill will even get a vote in the Senate. There’s no chance they’ll get 60 votes for it which means that the Democrats might try using the “reconciliation” process, normally reserved for budget items, which can with 50 votes get a bill passed without the possibility of a filibuster. However, that would be an extremely risky tactic politically and I think they’re not better than even money to be able to round up those 50 votes.
Instead of fulminate about how disastrous this legislation would be were it to come into effect, let me simply say that 219 people just voted for what would be the biggest tax hike in history during our worst recession in many years, and with essentially zero expected improvement in “global warming", the primary stated goal of this monstrosity.
Ace of Spades HQ on the House climate swindle billThe biggest doozy in the CBO analysis was its extraordinary decision to look only at the day-to-day costs of operating a trading program, rather than the wider consequences energy restriction would have on the economy.
In other words, the "costs" examined are merely the costs of salaries and phones and computers and Post-Its for the people administering this program -- the actual costs just to hire bureaucrats to sabotage the American economy.
Not the costs those bureaucrats in turn inflict on us all.
Nadir In the House — The New ClarionDon Surber writes,
The cap and trade bill is junk steroids — superstition. The climate of the Earth is determined by the Sun, not by the mumbo-jumbo gobbledygook thinking and jibberish of James Hansen, Al Gore and Daryl Hannah.
The Democratic Party has used global warming hysteria to slap the largest tax in history on the American economy.
It is crushing.
Vodkapundit sums it up:
Never have so few stolen so much from so many to achieve so little.
The Reference Frame: Mad radical leftists win in the U.S. HouseIt became extremely clear from the proceedings that virtually no one has read the bill, especially not the brand new 300-page amendment. No one in the U.S. House actually owned a copy of this amendment during the proceedings. John Boehner, the GOP minority leader, is close to an exception and we will discuss some of his findings below.
The supporters have uniformly been delusional imbeciles, talking about a shiny future, added jobs, reduced deficits, and saving the world. They have clearly no idea what's written in the bill and even if you told them, they wouldn't understand what it would mean. They're not capable of an elementary mental activity.
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Let me tell start somewhere. The very size of the bill, 1201 pages, means that most people - and even most "local experts" - have absolutely no chance to understand all of its glitches. (I offer USD 5 to the first person who shows some evidence that he or she has read the full text.) So this bill is, first of all, a stunning document transferring an immense amount of power to a few selected people who will know how to master the bill and benefit from its details.
For a comparison, a pretty good bill called the U.S. Constitution originally had four pages and it allowed a great country to work well for 230+ years. Those four pages are somewhat less than 1201 pages whose only purpose is to allow one particular green tumor to thrive for a few years, before it dies of hunger.
Brown’s Billions for Climate Change - Guy Fawkes' blogThe Prime Mentalist will succeed only in putting our children into debt that will last generations. No other G7 country supports this position because they are not led by loons. They have budget deficits to worry about, Britain’s deficit is the worst, last month alone the government overspent by £20 billion. Britain is broke, a government that can’t pay it’s bills has resorted to printing money to buy its own government debt and has run out of things to tax. They are planning to tax phone lines.
CentreRight: Barack Obama shows that moderation of style is more politically potent than moderation in policyBarack Obama has shown us the most important quality that a successful and radical politician needs is civility.
It's true that he has passion and charisma and a brilliant campaigning machine but it is his civility that has persuaded Americans to swallow his policy radicalism.
And, make no mistake, Barack Obama is America's most radical President of modern times. Yesterday, hardly noticed because of Michael Jackson's death, the House of Representatives approved very radical action on climate change.
YouTube - Bachmann On Climate-Change Bill: "We Choose Liberty, Or We Choose Tyranny"
House passes climate-change billIn the hours before passage, Rep. Geoff Davis, a Republican from Kentucky, said the cap-and-trade bill represented the “economic colonization of the heartland” by New York and California. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called the bill a “scam” that would do nothing but satisfy “the twisted desires of radical environmentalists.” Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) called it a “massive transfer of wealth” from the United States to foreign countries.
House passes climate-change bill - Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.comDemocratic leadership attempted to protect their most vulnerable freshman by cajoling yes votes from more senior members such as Lloyd Doggett of Texas.
Doggett announced his change of heart from “strong objection” earlier in the day during the final stage of the floor debate.
Doggett told POLITICO that he made his switch after speaking to Obama and having lengthy conversations with Waxman, Markey, Gore and Pelosi, but ultimately, he decided to support the bill so he could have a seat at the negotiating table when California Sen. Barbara Boxer introduces it in the Senate later this summer.
“It has been a difficult and significant decision,” Doggett said. “I just decided that I will have a better chance to make changes later in the process if I acted in good faith now. But don't think this means I'm signing off on the conference report,” he said.
When the bill passed, the chamber erupted in applause, and colleagues shook Markey and Waxman's hands. Even some Republicans clapped, mocking the Democrats for casting what they deemed a politically unpopular vote.
YouTube - Rep Doggett Sums Up Why He Will Vote Yes on ACES[If you don't believe in the global warming hoax, Doggett suggests that you're part of the "Flat Earth Society"]
House narrowly OKs sweeping climate change [swindle] bill | News for Dallas, TexasRep. Joe Barton of Arlington managed the Republican opposition to the bill, which climaxed when Rep. John Boehner, the Republican leader, raised numerous questions about the bill during a floor speech that lasted more than an hour.
Barton, a skeptic of climate change, said the bill would "make us a second-rate economic power" and mocked Democrats for the dozens of concessions they made to industry groups to pass the legislation.
Indeed, while a legislative report said the bill contained no earmarks, one Florida Democrat won a pledge of support of $50 million for a proposed hurricane research facility in his district in Orlando, according to The Associated Press.
"If you haven't made your deal yet, come on down to the floor," Barton said.
Obama [wants Senators to cripple our economy trying to protect God's creation from carbon dioxide] - Bloomberg.comThe measure goes to the Senate for consideration. Obama called on lawmakers in that chamber “to take this opportunity to come together and meet our obligations -- to our constituents, to our children, to God’s creation, and to future generations” by reaching agreement with the House on a final version of the bill.
Climate Depot Editorial: Climate Bill's Passage Represents 'nothing more than unrestrained exercise of raw political power, arm-twisting and intimidation'The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed global warming bill (219-212 vote) will no doubt be hailed by many as “historic” or “landmark” or “The Bill of the Century.”
This passage of this bill does not signify any great “green revolution” or “growing” climate “awareness” on the part of Congress. Instead, the methods and manner that the Pelosi led House achieved final passage, represents nothing more than unrestrained exercise of raw political power, arm-twisting, intimidation and special interest handouts.
The House of Representatives passed a bill it did not read, did not understand. A bill that is based on crumbling scientific claims and a bill that will have no detectable climate impact (assuming climate fear promoters are correct on the science and the bill is fully implemented – both implausible assumptions).
Proponents of the bill made spectacular claims in their efforts to impress the urgency of the bill on their colleagues. Democratic Congressman G.K. Butterfield reported claim that the bill “'will literally save the planet” reveals just how out of touch scientifically, politically and economically many of the bill's supporters have become.
To illustrate just how delusional some of the supporters of the bill have became, imagine if in 1909 the U.S. Congress passed a bill attempting to predict climate, temperature and the energy mix powering our national economy in the year 2000. (not to mention sanctimonious claims about "saving the Earth.") Any such attempt would have been ridiculed, but somehow in 2009, attempting to control the economy and climate of the year 2100 is seen as reasonable by many.
POLITICO 44 | Obama remarks on the House climate fraud billThere are those who argue that the status quo is acceptable, those who would have us continue our dependence on foreign oil and our reliance on fossil fuels despite the risks to our security, our economy, and the planet. ...The best bet -- the safe bet -- was that after three decades of failure [why didn't he say "eight years" here?], we couldn't muster the political will to tackle the energy challenge despite the necessity and urgency of action....It was a victory of the future over the past [no, actually, it was a temporary victory of fraud and stupidity over truth and intelligence]. And that's what America is all about.
Congressman Asks for Moment of Silence for Jobs Lost to Cap-and-Trade on House FloorRep. Tom Price, R-Ga., has his request denied for a moment of silence for the jobs lost to the Waxman-Markey Energy Bill on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. [Via Climate Depot]
Inhofe Vows to Expose Bill in the Senate as All Cost, No Climate Gain"Today's razor thin vote in the House spells doom in the Senate," Senator Inhofe said. "Despite a large Democratic majority in the House, and the fact that this is one of the President's top priorities, the Democratic leadership was forced to do everything possible to get a bill passed. Their slim victory could come at a high price - this is the BTU tax all over again.
YouTube - Boehner: America Has the Right to Know the Consequences of Speaker Pelosi's Nat'l Energy TaxHouse Democrats didnt want the American people to understand the true impact of Speaker Pelosis 1,500-page national energy tax. So House Republican Leader John Boehner took to the House floor and read portions of it to the American people, explaining how it would to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India.
House Democrats didnt much like it either, and they tried to shut him down. But Boehner asked Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and other Democrats: Dont you think the American people expect us to understand whats in the bill before we vote on it?
TheHill.com - Obama lauds passage of climate [hoax] billObama and senior administration officials worked the phones feverishly to avoid a painful and detrimental push back from the House.
Obama, who was joined by German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier Friday to push for the legislation, called the bill a "bold and necessary step that holds the promise of creating new industries and millions of new jobs, decreasing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and strictly limiting the release of pollutants that threaten the health of families and communities and the planet itself.."
"Now it's up to the Senate to take the next step and I'm confident that in the coming weeks and months, the Senate will demonstrate the same commitment in addressing what is a tremendous challenge and an extraordinary oppty," Obama said.
House Passes [Idiotic] Climate [Swindle] Bill | AlterNetPassage of the Waxman-Markey bill by the House is the first stage in what promises to remain a difficult legislative process. The Senate is now scheduled to consider the matter, though it has yet to produce actual legislation. Once the Senate passes a bill, it must be merged with the House's version in conference committee. Finalized, the legislation will then be reconsidered by both bodies of Congress before ultimately making it to the president's desk.
Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy [thinks CO2 is a "grave threat"]ARLINGTON, VA — June 26, 2009 — The passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) is a watershed event for conservation and the world’s continued and growing engagement on climate change. It makes clear to the world that the U.S. is ready to show the kind of leadership on climate change that will be necessary if we are to confront this grave threat.
BusinessWeek [article endorses climate fraud]Many in industry have come to believe that, given what science is learning, the costs of inaction are far greater than the price tag of the legislation...
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But perhaps the biggest reason why support remained strong enough to win passage, despite the legislation’s many flaws and opponents, is that the measure is actually expected to work.
Hastings delivers harsh words about energy tax | Yakima Herald-Republic OnlineYAKIMA, Wash. -- U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, invoked lemmings and had some other sharp words for the Democrats’ National Energy Tax in a speech on the House floor today.
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“By imposing this National Energy Tax and creating a massive new bureaucracy to regulate the entire economy, this bill will drive up the cost of doing business in America, sending jobs overseas to China and India — nations that flat-out refuse to reduce their own carbon emissions.
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“America should not be the first lemming to jump off the cliff because Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore are convinced that China, India, Russia and others will follow us over the ledge.”
Global warming for amateurs | The Moderate VoiceHansen has penchant for absurdity, so it isn’t too hard to argue he’s an extremist. For example, he wants the CEOs of ExxonMobil and other energy firms tried for “high crimes against humanity and nature.” (Ever the attorney, my wife was quite curious about what counts as a crime against nature.)
Hansen also testified on behalf of six Greenpeace activists who caused $60,000 of damage to a coal plant in England. Ever the pragmatist, Hansen wants to shut down ever coal-fired energy plant in the world in the next 20 years.
All right, so how is the New Yorker going to convince me that Hansen is actually a hero instead of crank? To the credit of Elizabeth Kolbert, she actually begins the article by compiling many of the same absurdities that Goldfarb catalogued. But she also devotes a lot of space to lavish praise of Hansen’s scientific work by many of his prominent colleagues. He may sound like Chicken Little, they say, but his warnings up until now have been prophetic.
Grist.org (grist) on Twitter# Oh no oh no RT @Populista: 3 D's voted against #ACES for being too weak. 41 D's voted against it b/c they thought it was TOO STRONG. Wow...
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Here are the 8 Republican votes for the #ACES climate bill: Reichert, Mack, Castle, Lo Biondo, McHugh, Smith (NJ), Lance, Kirk
[A whole lot of climate realism in the comment section here:] House Passes Milestone Climate Change Bill - ABC NewsThe measure now heads to the U.S. Senate where it faces a steep uphill battle based on concerns that it will raise energy costs...
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Enjoy today, alarmists, because it's all downhill from hereAt the time of the interview Friday morning, [Jim Inhofe] said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was only two votes short of winning and predicted that if she brought the question up for a vote, it would indicate she had found them.
“It doesn’t matter,” he declared flatly, “because we’ll kill it in the Senate anyway.”
Asked if he was confident that would be the case, Oklahoma’s senior senator said he was “absolutely certain.” He noted that it would take 60 votes to break an anticipated Republican filibuster over cap and trade and predicted the most the Democrats can muster is about 34.
He said all the hubbub in the House was over Pelosi’s desire to attend a conference in Copenhagen and be able to stand up and say, “Oh, we’ve passed this out of the House and we’re going to lead the way in America but it’s not going to pass the Senate.”
GOP filibusters climate-change vote - Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.comHouse Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) slowed Democrats’ attempt to pass a sweeping climate-change legislation Friday evening, reading page-by-page through a 300-page Democratic amendment before allowing a roll call vote.
It was a House version of a Senate filibuster – and a way to protest the addition of the 300-page managers’ amendment at 3 a.m. Friday.
Republicans say Democrats are ramming their climate-change legislation through the House without enough time for members to read the bill — let alone to understand it — all in violation of their promises about creating a more transparent legislative process.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), running the debate for his party, asked repeatedly Friday afternoon if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher – sitting in the speaker’s chair although she’s already been confirmed as Obama’s undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security — repeatedly dodged the question.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s sponsors, finally rose to say that a single copy of the current version of the bill was available at the speaker’s desk and on the Internet, which members would have to leave the floor to access.
Doggett Switches, Will Vote for Climate [Fraud] Bill | The Washington IndependentEarlier this afternoon, Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that opposes the Democrats’ soon-to-be-voted-on climate change bill, shot out an email commending Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) for his shared opposition.
They’ll want to take that back. Doggett just took to the House floor to announce that he’s now supporting the bill. The reason? He was tired, he said, of listening to the members of “the flat earth society” across the aisle making “inane” arguments.
Climate Change Bill May Hinge On Recalcitrant ProgressivesBut there has been some backlash as a result of these efforts, underscoring the tricky dynamics of trying to unite a diverse caucus around a politically touchy and divisive issue. On Thursday, for instance, Markey waded into a room of progressive to make one last group appeal for the bill that bears his name. In the process, [Markey] surprised the crowd by standing up in support of coal, the fossil fuel that scientists say is doing the most to alter the world's climate in devastating ways. Progressives are concerned that Waxman-Markey doesn't do enough to curb emissions from coal plants and that some provision might, in fact, enable more plants to come online.
The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room » Latham brings ‘gift box’ prop to climate debateRep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) accused the U.S. Congress of handing China a "gift" containing "American jobs" in the climate change bill before them.
Railing against the effect of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill scheduled for a vote this evening, Latham brought a prop to the debate.
Latham literally brought a gift box up with him to the podium during his one-minute speech, with the "present" inside: A hard hat with "American jobs" labeled on it.
TheHill.com - Hoyer predicts enough climate votes, but late nightThe climate change bill to be brought to the floor of the House will have enough votes, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Friday.
But the debate and eventual vote on the bill may roll over into Saturday, Hoyer cautioned during an interview on Bloomberg News.
Phil Kerpen (kerpen) on TwitterNewest AFP count: My count is 210-210 with 14 undecided.
Iain Murray (ismurray) on Twitter# RT @amoylan: [rest of] 14 undecideds are: Petri, Space, Teague, Tonko.half a minute ago from TweetDeck
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Shea Gunther jumps the gun: Climate change bill passes House, headed to Senate | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThe U.S. House of Representatives passed a key piece of climate change legislation 217 - 205.
Fri, Jun 26 2009 at 2:58 PM EST
robwittman: TwitpicThis is the running tally of pro and con calls from my constituents on Cap and Trade. #tcot #energy
Twitter / Iain MurrayI'm a bit behind, but Butterfield - "this legn will literally save the planet" - wins Biggest Buffoon in Congress today (against stiff oppn)
Cap-and-Trade Fight Puts Obama Presidency on the Line | Americans for ProsperityThe fight over the massive cap-and-trade energy tax bill known as Waxman-Markey will come down to the wire today, and even if it passes, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already been dealt a huge defeat. Pelosi called the vote on the bill earlier this week, betting that by pushing ahead with a vote she’d be able to get enough Democrats in line to pass the bill. She couldn’t. Despite a big majority, Pelosi was about a dozen votes short of passage yesterday when the White House decided to ride to the rescue.
Now the president himself and his top staff are frantically calling undecided and leaning members of Congress, trying to get Waxman-Markey over the finish line. Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, said today: “If this goes down, it shows we can’t govern.” Those are pretty high stakes.
Twitter / Iain Murray: RT @StephenGordon: RT @scr ...RT @StephenGordon: RT @scrappleface: Dear Congress, You cap us, we trade you. Love, Your Boss
Iain Murray (ismurray) on Twitter# RT @mkhammer: They're awfully sure it's awesome. How could 1,500 pages of back-room dealing NOT yield awesome results? #ACES #capntaxless than a minute ago from TweetDeck
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Rep Ike Skelton has just used the #epicsettle argument beloved of John Dingell. Reform EPA/Clean Air Act instead, gentlemen! #tcot4 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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RT @chamberpost: "if it doesn't get through, difficult to see how anything else will pass" this is a reason? #epicsettle http://bit.ly/Xqgh97 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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RT @mkhammer: I suggest a resolution- all supporters of #capntax in Congress preface their remarks with, "I didn't actually read it, but..."8 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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RT @kerpen: We're at 206 Yes 211 No 17 Undecided Keep calling undecideds and leaners: http://tinyurl.com/la96rt #tcot10 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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RT @greenbubble: Ethanol Lobby 1, Environment 0: Compromise Struck to Move Climate Bill Forward http://tinyurl.com/kjawe710 minutes ago from TweetDeck
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Looks like it's time for Obama to barge in and lose several waverers their seats, just like Gore/Clinton did in 93...
Two EPA Staffers Question Science Behind Climate 'Endangerment' Proposal - NYTimes.comTwo U.S. EPA career employees detailed their concerns about the science underpinning the agency's "endangerment" finding in a report released last night by a conservative think tank.
Details, Details - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineA regular Planet Gore reader — a lighting designer from California (and, apparently, a Bugs Bunny fan) — is doing the job that most Congressman won't do: reading the 1,200 pages of Waxman-Markey.
Trying to read the ungainly thing. Ugh.
Regarding Subtitle B — Lighting and Appliance Energy Efficiency Programs: “Efficacy” is the term used in reference to light sources (lamps, “light bulbs”) and described in lumens per watt. It does NOT refer to luminaires (light fixtures) to which the term “efficiency” is applied — which describes the percentage of light produced by the source that comes out of the luminaire, and is stated as a percentage. These clowns can’t get that right. They frequently refer to the efficacy of luminaires and at one point write about the efficiency in terms of lumens per watt. (p 389, lines 10-13.)
If they are that clueless in one small section of this massive tome, how much more clueless are they in the rest of it? What maroons!
Shopfloor » Blog Archive » Waxman-Markey: Leadership Still Lacking VotesKeith McCoy, our NAM vice president for energy and resources policy, is providing updates on the Waxman-Markey debate via Twitter posts (as are we). Keith reports:
Dem leadership is 3 short of 218 for final passage. They are confident that the bill will pass today, but the vote has been delayed indefinetely. (KMC)
You can follow it @NAM_shopfloor.
We’re also following @ismurray and @kerpen, and the environmentalist web publication, Grist, has a link to broader Twitter chatter about the American Clean Energy and Security Act. It’s too much, really, but one can glean intelligence from the chaff, dross, straw.
Jennifer Marohasy » How the US Temperature Record is AdjustedA reader of this blog, Michael Hammer, recently studied the official data from the US official weather stations and in particular how it is adjusted after it has been collected. Mr Hammer concludes that the temperature rise profile claimed by the US government is largely if not entirely an artefact of the adjustments applied after the raw data is collected from the weather stations.
The conspiratorial among us might conclude from Mr Hammer’s assessment, that even with the help of some asphalt etcetera, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intuitively recognises that the data still needed to be adjust upwards to achieve a politicly correct result.
US will match Germany's climate change [hoax] commitment: Obama | The Money TimesMerkel, who held talks with members of Congress earlier Friday, said she had witnessed a "sea-change" in US attitudes towards global warming over the past year.
CongressDaily - House Prepares For Photo Finish On Climate Change BillAgriculture Chairman Collin Peterson -- whose recent deal with Waxman gave Democratic leaders renewed hope of passing a bill this week -- said he believes up to about 15 of 28 Democrats on his panel will vote for it. "I've done what I can," he said, indicating he thinks rural Democrats have pretty much made up their minds.
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Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., is one Ways and Means Democrat who will vote "no." He thinks the bill has greatly improved of late but that the timing is still wrong. "There's no public outcry to pass this legislation. It's an institutional push," Davis said. Davis said he expects most of his fellow Congressional Black Caucus colleagues to vote for the bill.
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