U.S. Republicans Axe Global Warming Panel
House Republicans will scrap the committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate global warming, the panel’s top Republican announced Wednesday.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) made official what many had already expected – the GOP majority will axe the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Pelosi created in 2007.
“This hearing will be the last of the select committee,” Sensenbrenner announced.
Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called Wednesday’s hearing to give witnesses a chance to warn of the perils of climate change before the GOP launches efforts next year to roll back the Obama administration’s climate policies.
Sensenbrenner, a vocal climate change skeptic, had pushed to keep the panel alive to probe the White House’s energy policies. But it was seen as unlikely that GOP leadership would devote resources to the panel created by Democrats at the same time that they called for scaling back government spending.
The Wisconsin Republican may still play a key role in leading investigations into climate science next year. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who’s vying for the chairmanship of the Science Committee, told POLITICO Tuesday he’d like to see Sensenbrenner lead the panel’s climate science probes.
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For the Chop: Republicans Put Global Warming Panel Out Of Business
Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey will hold one last media spectacle at his Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming today, allowing such oracles as green activist Robert Kennedy Jr. to preach about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Let’s hope Speaker-designate John Boehner makes it the committee’s last hurrah.
Current Speaker Nancy Pelosi created this outfit in 2007 as a way to outflank then Energy Committee Chairman John Dingell, for whom climate change is not a religion. The committee provided Mr. Markey a prominent perch from which to work closely with California’s Henry Waxman (who later deposed Mr. Dingell) on the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and helped so many Democrats lose their seats in November.
Mr. Markey held more than 50 hearings, at which he demeaned reputable scientists, attacked oil and gas companies, and in general evangelized about the need to replace carbon energy with windmills and solar panels. With no bill-writing powers, committee Members spent $8 million or so on hearings, global “fact-finding” missions and reports of little consequence. Oh, and Mr. Markey elbowed his way into investigating the BP spill, which he used as a platform to demonize oil exploration.
h/t to The GWPF
The US republican’s ought to set up a committee to investigate Inhofe’s claim that Cap & Trade is being implemented via gov policy in the EPA. The EPA needs a staffing reduction.
RIP. Baby steps.
Some good news, at last.
I count the killing of the trillion dollar/year CO2 carbon trading market a monumental win for the truth based climate science community.
@Paul, the EPA needs a serious reduction in funding. There are real issues so defunding it probably is not a good idea, but it comes close to being one. A bit of strong arm on keeping the EPA on topic via their funding would be in order.
Good news , maybe ….
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/01/obama-to-voters-drop-dead
As a total off topic aside. Britain is now snowed in and frozen to a virtual standstill: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8172687/UK-snow-Arctic-conditions-hit-travel-networks.html Comments from the CRU were not forthcoming. It must be a telepathic Gore effect from Mexico or something.
Patting science back in it’s rightful place — Trust but verify.
To quote Obama: “Elections have consequences.”
I actually agree with Sensenbrenner regarding closing out the panel properly. Just yanking the plug on the panel is rather like walking away from the discussion, while closing out the panel properly would at least ensure the critical argument is made.
Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“You cursed brat – Look what you’ve done! You’ve destroyed my beautiful wickedness! What a world…. what a world.” Sounds like Pelosi, doesn’t it?
Paul,
More conservative minds control the US House of Representatives now. I’m urging my Representatives to strip funding for any and all Carbon-Is-Pollution related activities within the EPA or any other federal government agency. I urge like minded citizens to contact their representatives and demand they do so as well. We have the opportunity to completely dismantle this farce. There’s no time to waste – Let’s get to it!!!
Now if only we could get rid of the CARB!
Somebody should do a quick calc on the SCFEIAGW’s CO2 footprint (time spent in meetings, associated travel for congresspersons and lobbyists to SCFEIAGW events, etc). Then Sensenbrenner could take credit for the reduction once it’s gone.
Hey wait a minute…in fact, let’s calculate the one for Congress…
Perhaps the ‘Nancy Pelosi created it’ stigma was too much to overcome. Nevertheless, other GOP-chaired committees can do their investigations, ones on the underlying science, and others about why there were such huge efforts to exclude skeptic scientists from discussions, and the manner in which they were said to be corrupt. Please see: “Global Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw” http://biggovernment.com/rcook/2010/11/27/global-warming-nuisance-lawsuits-are-based-on-a-fatal-flaw/
@ur momisuglyShrNfr – Close. It’s because CRU issued this in time for the conference.
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934.toc
Carma’s a b@ur momisugly#$%.
“Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey will hold one last media spectacle at his Select Committee for Energy Independence… “
If the goal really ever was energy independence then we should drill here, drill, now, fire up nuclear power plants ASAP, ferment and distill every scrap of garbage and vegetative whatnot, look for a few more hydro-friendly rivers to exploit, start creating algae lagoons, and round up all the wasted methane being produced by various sources, eh? But, nahhh… Energy independence was never really the point, as far as I can tell.
ShrNfr says:
December 1, 2010 at 11:22 am
So Climate disruption is real after all? But its by Global cooling, not by Globull warning.
Killing the old panel is a good start, but to kill the beast a new panel should be formed for the purpose of restoring transparency to climate science. NASA, NOAA and GISS must be made to put the raw temperature data (land and SST) and the means of data adjustment into the public domain.
Progress!
I am pleased that Mr M(al)arkey has nothing to do with this side of the pond, but with Two-Jags Prescott in Mexico? Well, anything might happen; of no signifigance, of course, unless he has a sudden attack of wind…
I like it, I also wonder just how much hidden spending they could find that was attached (read earmarked) or cobbeled under other important legislation such as national defense and, OH wait that is the only one that the federal government is mandated to have to do. All the rest is only to promote the general welfare. Must have been a play on words. Perhaps there is a way to cut the federal budget after all.
Bill Derryberry
This is a progressive move. i like.
This is good news, but as a Kiwi residing in London, UK, for a while, how can this be leveraged into getting our NZ government to roll back their ridiculous ETS legislation?
This is OT, I am not sure if the windmills in the north of the UK are working – the wind is blowing but the snow is falling and the temps are still dropping. I feel for old people dependent on getting hot meals delivered, nurses coming to their houses to provide individual care, etc when so much of the country is snowed in. Warm doesn’t pile up and block roads or train lines or runways!
Actually, I think the GOP and the science realist community is missing an opportunity here. The panel should have been kept and used to investigate the climate deception/fraud that has been committed.
This committee could have called all those alarmists on the carpet and investigated/exposed their funding and their data.
So I think we all lost an opportunity here.
Another card removed from the foundation…