Links tagged “gop”
- GOP group launches ad campaign for carbon tax
- Study: A trillion trees will cost nurseries billions & they ‘can’t grow nearly enough seedlings’
- Morano on TV: Under Biden & GOP Senate, ‘no Green New Deal passes, unless there are enough Republican votes to do a Green New Deal Lite’
Morano on The Ezra Levant Show - Broadcast November 6, 2020: “The good news is that Republicans retain the Senate. And that means no Green New Deal passes, unless there are enough Republican votes to do Green New Deal Lite, or something.
“Basically it means the stopping of that, stopping the court-packing and a lot of what Joe Biden did. But Biden's will be re-joining of the United Nations Paris Agreement. He [just tweeted] that he will 'rejoin'... almost from day one of his presidency.”
- A Republican Senate Will Keep Biden in Check? Oh, Please! – ‘Romney is poster child for present-day GOP Senate: pandering, feckless, disloyal, & weak’
- Claim: ‘During the Conventions, the Media Needs to Be Treating Climate Like the Emergency’ – ‘It Is It’s not an issue to be discussed. It’s a crisis’
Climate activist Mark Hertsgaard: "With the Democratic and the Republican conventions unfolding this week and next, it’s high time for news coverage to catch up with science and make the 'climate emergency' a leading topic in the national political conversation."
- The coming man-made misery if the Green New Deal is enacted
- Michael Shellenberger: I Was Invited to Testify to Congress on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak – ‘I had the startling experience of being smeared by sitting members’ of House
Shellenberger: "Late in the hearing, Representatives Sean Casten of Illinois and Jared Huffman of California, both Democrats, used the whole of their allotted time to claim that I am not a real environmentalist, that I am not a qualified expert, and that I am motivated by money.
Had I been given a chance to respond, I would have noted that: I have been a climate activist for 20 years; my new book, Apocalypse Never, has received strong praise from leading environmental scientists and scholars; the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently invited me to serve as an expert reviewer; and that I have always been financially independent of industry interests.
But I wasn’t given the chance to say any of that. After Casten and Huffman lied about me, Rep. Garret Graves asked the committee’s chairperson, Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida, to let me respond. She refused and abruptly ended the hearing."
- GOP embraces liberal environmentalism skeptic Shellenberger with radical plan for nuclear energy – Set to testify on Capitol Hill
Shellenberger’s views and his status as a critic of climate change “alarmists” are being embraced by House Republicans, who invited him to testify as their witness at a hearing Tuesday afternoon held by a special climate committee. He pushes ideas that go beyond what other pro-nuclear advocates and Republican supporters propose, envisioning a smaller role, if any at all, for other zero-emission energy sources such as renewables and for technologies to eliminate pollution from fossil fuel plants such as carbon capture.
“Conventional wisdom is we need a mix of nuclear and renewables,” Shellenberger told the Washington Examiner. “There is no technical or economic reason for that.”
- So-called ‘conservative’ climate contract paves way for Green New Deal – Some in GOP call for U.S. to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050
- Top House Republicans rally behind ‘conservative youth climate plan’ – ‘Moves toward a goal of global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050’
"In total, 10 top GOP lawmakers are backing the group’s American Climate Contract, the coalition announced Monday. In addition to McCarthy, its backers include Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the top Republican on the House Energy Committee, and Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, the top Republican on the House select climate panel." ...
"The ACC’s policy plan, released in April, calls for the United States to advance policies that “move toward a goal of global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.” It lays out support for four policies: investing in energy innovation, modernizing infrastructure, supporting conservation measures that store carbon, and engaging globally to reduce emissions."
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NASA Data: World Is Greener So Far This Century Thanks to CO2
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New Study: 100-Year Flood Events Are Globally Decreasing In Frequency & Probability Since 1970
"The probability of a 100-year flood event is now so rare it has only been occurring once every 358 years on average since 1970." ...
"In present-day conditions, 100-year flood events have globally become so rare that they now (since 1970) only occur once every 358 years on average. And 50-year floods only occur once every 152 years on average.
With the cooler climate conditions of the 1970s, there was a 45% probability that a 50-year flood would occur. In today’s conditions, however, there is only an 18% chance that a 50-year flood will occur."
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FLASHBACK: In 2009, John Kerry incorrectly predicted the Arctic would have ‘ice-free summer’ by 2014
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We should return to Michael Crichton’s way of thinking
"I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled." — Michael Crichton