Don’t believe me? Did you see what Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) had to say?
"They [Republicans] want to play politics and see if they can keep any achievements from being accomplished that may be beneficial to the Democrats. They're rooting against the country and I think in this case, even rooting against the world because the world needs to get its act together to stop global warming."
Rooting against the world? Because a VERY large number of people don’t agree with his interpretation of available scientific data on the subject? Please.
But Paul Krugman from the New York Times went even further.
“So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.”
Now we’re traitors to the human race. Uh-huh. Look, if the scientific data were definitive, that’d be one thing. But science isn’t on your side. If it were, why would the EPA have to bury a report from one of its own long-term analysts that disagreed with the “official” PresBo stance?
“The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.”
I just have one piece of advice for the Democrats: You won in the House… now deal with it.
2 comments:
The key question to get them to answer....is this global warming, global cooling or climate change? Each involves a different fix....and frankly, I've seen a hundred folks appear and speak on NPR....saying each was underway. It'd be curious if any Democrat would want to admit something, in public.
Assuming you buy the whole "man is destroying the earth" hoopla, which I don't. From the evidence I've seen, the sun has more of an affect on climate than anything WE do.
If the whole thing weren't so deadly serious, it'd be funny.
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