Links tagged “gop”
- Some GOP lawmakers introduce ‘climate messaging exercise’ – ‘A slippery slope to a slightly less intrusive Green New Deal’
The American Energy Alliance, a free-market energy industry group, panned Wednesday’s Republican proposal as a “climate messaging exercise” that mimics Democratic proposals.
“His (McCarthy’s) costly proposal is a slippery slope to a slightly less intrusive Green New Deal,” said AEA President Thomas Pyle.
- GOP’s ‘climate’ plan denounced as ‘Romney liberal climate regulations’
Club for Growth: “Besides hurting our economy, these measures will not make a single environmentalist vote for a Republican and only alienate conservatives across the country."
- The GOP’s Carbon Capture Dodge – The GOP’s ‘Expensive futility & greenwashing boondoggle’
Steve Milloy: "However you slice it, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is an expensive futility and greenwashing boondoggle masquerading a policy alternative for managing the climate hysteria via technology."
- CEI: Climate Bills Supported by Some House Republicans are Bad Policy – ‘Not only bad policy, but will not bring any political relief’
- Settled Science?! Trees both cause & solve ‘global warming’?! – GOP climate pandering seeks to plant billions of trees
GOP climate bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
Plant or not plant trees to fight "global warming?! It's all so confusing! This is what the (allegedly) settled science says:
Christian Science Monitor: Why planting some trees could make global warming worse - 2016
Live Science: Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees - 2019
Discover Mag: We Can’t Just Plant Billions of Trees to Stop Climate Change - 2019
AP: Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees - 2019
Climate News Network: Planting trees will not slow global warming - 2017
- GOP bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
- How House Republicans won over conservatives to gain consensus on a climate agenda
“Climate denial is a bad political strategy,” said Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a 37-year-old member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and an ally of President Trump. “At some point, you have to be for something to fix it.”
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Outside conservative groups and more liberal GOP members left out of negotiations, however, promise to test House Republicans’ projection of unity.
Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, dismissed McCarthy’s effort as a toothless messaging agenda of “wasting taxpayer dollars to pay off special interests and nutty plans to plant a trillion trees.” “I would have to be convinced that global warming is a crisis and that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced before supporting such a package,” Ebell said.
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"The big problem I have with this is the carbon capture concept," says Climate Depot's Marc Morano, who is a skeptic of catastrophic man-made climate change. "What they're basically saying is 'carbon dioxide is some kind of problem.'"
- Some in GOP look to counter Green New Deal with three-pronged climate plan – 1) Carbon capture, plant trees 2) Promote ‘clean energy’ 3) Fight plastic waste
Some GOP members of Congress' 3 part plan: The first is the capturing of carbon dioxide emissions...The plan does not include emissions targets that are favored by Democrats.
The second part of the plan is the promotion of clean energy technology
The third area of focus is conservation, especially when it comes to plastic.
- Enviro guru Michael Shellenberger Shreds Claims Made By Ocasio-Cortez, Thunberg In Congressional Testimony
Shellenberger began by highlighting his background, telling the Committee: “I am an energy analyst and environmentalist dedicated to the goals of universal prosperity, peace, and environmental protection. Between 2003 and 2009 I advocated for a large federal investment in renewables, many of which were made as part of the 2009 stimulus. And since 2013 I have advocated for the continued operation of nuclear plants around the world and thus helped prevent emissions from increasing the equivalent of adding 24 million cars to the road.”
“I also care about getting the facts and science right. I believe that scientists, journalists, and advocates have an obligation to represent climate science accurately, even if doing so reduces the saliency of our concerns,” Shellenberger continued. “No credible scientific body has claimed climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species. And yet some activists, scientists, and journalists make such apocalyptic assertions, which I believe contribute to rising levels of anxiety, including among adolescents, and worsening political polarization.”
- GOP’s John Kasich Veers Deeper into Warmist: ‘I work with John Kerry, with my great buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger to try to develop a consensus’
JOHN KASICH, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Look, there is no way we should put our heads in the sand. We -- I work with John Kerry -- with my great buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger to try to develop a consensus in this country that we can't just sit still. And, right now, we're not making great progress, but if we keep at it and keep at it -- develop renewables, do research into batteries -- we can get to a point -- support electric vehicles. I drive a Tesla or it drives me -- I can't figure out which. But that is a critical issue.
Kimmel then jumped in to observe: "I don't feel like you're a Republican at all."
