As you know, the next battle on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill will be fought in the Senate. Maybe then they’ll read those 300+ pages added at 3:09AM the day before the house vote.
PaulM writes in “Tips and Notes to WUWT”:
At 10 am, JULY 7 there will be a Full SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL and PUBLIC WORKS Committee hearing entitled, “Moving America toward a Clean Energy Economy and Reducing Global Warming Pollution: Legislative Tools.”
Please contact your/the Senators on the Committee with your opinions. This is another important opportunity to contribute to the GW debate that we must take to the AGW’s through our politicians – as they hold our futures in their votes. If you have a Senator on the Committee at least contact him//her as well as the leaders.
Senate Majority Committee Members:
Barbara Boxer (Chairman)
Max Baucus
Thomas R. Carper
Frank R. Lautenberg
Benjamin L. Cardin
Bernard Sanders
Amy Klobuchar
Sheldon Whitehouse
Tom Udall
Jeff Merkley
Kirsten Gillibrand
Arlen Specter
Senate Minority Committee Members:
James M. Inhofe
George V. Voinovich
David Vitter
John Barrasso
Mike Crapo
Christopher S. Bond
Lamar Alexander
I suggest giving them an ear-full, quickly and often, supporting Dr. ALAN CARLIN and his suppressed “Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act”
You will also like to contact The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee members.
I would suppose that with such a well-thought handle, democrapper is a member of the intelligently designed right.
See how stereotypes are perpetrated? You have, to quote a famous line from The Hunt For Red October, “You arrogant [something], you haven’t killed them, you’ve killed us!”
REPLY: I agree Pamela. Labeling, name calling and regurgitation of stereotypical views only serves to build walls when rational debate is what is sorely needed. – Anthony
David Hagen (7/2, 10:31:21) also notes that Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be the lead witness before the Senate Environment committee on Tuesday 7/7.
Perhaps one of the committee members will ask him why, if merely changing the albedo of roofing will make a significant dent in global warming per his statement on 5/27, the ruinous cap-and-trade bill is being promoted instead of this far less costly approach?
The State of Florida has issued a recent study of roofing materials showing that some have much better properties in this respect than others. Has the US government adopted guidelines that all new roofing or replacement roofing on government buildings in AC-intensive climates should conform to a high standard of solar reflectivity and FIR emissivity? Is there a program in place to educate homeowners and businesses that following Washington’s example would be in their own self-interest?
If not, why not? Is it because the administration’s real agenda is not GW but control of energy?
(Chu was earlier hung up by Congressman Barton on the issue of how there happen to be oil deposits in northern Alaska. It would be fun to press him on this issue, but I think that the issue of whether government building codes incorporate his albedo recommendation would be a better use of limited question time.)
I personally doubt that even converting all roofing to high-reflectivity materials would make much of a dent in global temperatures, given what a small fraction of the earth’s surface roofs are. However, it could still be very beneficial in terms of alleviating urban temperatures and in terms of reduced AC usage. If everyone who voted for Al Gore in 2000 and who has built a new house or had to replace their roof since then had followed the Florida study’s recommendations, there would already have been a huge change in urban albedo.
Here you need a laugh you take yourself way too seriously. You can laugh right?
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that was just for you – I never thought it would get posted.
REPLY: Well in that case, it was funny, thanks – A
cool glad you liked it. Off to the harbor to get ready for the 4th. Enjoy!
All,
I have a suggestion. Provided it’s legal (and I have no reason to believe it isn’t legal, but then I’m not a lawyer), identify 5 to 10 senators who in your opinion are (a) in a tight senate race, and (b) likely to vote for ACES. Call their offices and tell the person who answers the phone that you’ll be watching how the senator votes on the ACES bill, and that if the senator votes FOR the ACES bill, you will send $10 to his political opponent in the next election. Then do it. One such phone call will have no effect. 10,000 such phone calls might.
Reed Coray
To say “The problem is: the chair [Senator Boxer] is not very bright” [Pieter F (09:45:16)] is comparable to saying ‘the Pacific Ocean is not very dry’ — both statements are true, but neither statement represents reality. The Pacific Ocean is very wet, and Barabara Boxer is very stupid.
Stupid U.S. Politicians
The concept of savvy politicians is all wrong. Remember “Gulliver’s Travels” Especially the part where the foreign king could not hear, until one of his servants smacked him across the ear with a soft baseball bat? Also, the king could not speak unless a servant smacked him across the mouth with the padded bat.
This is almost exactly what we have today, with elected officials hearing and reading only what their staffs have carefully filtered and allowed them to hear.
Politicians speak in carefully chosen words written by their staff, and usually only when their staff and advisers have chosen the time, place, and manner. Even a supposedly “spontaneous” Town-Hall type performance is just that, a well-rehearsed and practiced performance sometimes worthy of an Academy Award.
Rep. Waxman deserves a Razzy, for bungling his lines so badly. Or a better staff, who can actually write.
Who can forget Billy Boy Clinton and his cronies yukking it up at a funeral, until they realized a news camera was rolling. They instantly jumped back into character, with long faces and sad expressions. Method acting, apparently? Another Razzy?
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Quote of the week (26 04 2009) – Waxman’s stunningly stupid statement
This QOTW is from Congressman Henry Waxman, who is pushing (or maybe bribing) the carbon cap and trade bill through congress. The statement made by Waxman can be corrected by a third grader; it’s that bad.
From an interview on NPR as relayed by Tavis Smiley:
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..”
That’s probably the scariest statement on “science” ever uttered by a Congressman. Waxman is stunningly and stupidly misinformed and intellectually inadequate for the tasks at hand that bears his name: The Waxman-Markey bill
This is what Waxman works on in Congress:
Committee on Energy and Commerce (Chairman)
* Subcommittee on Health
* Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
* Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Write or call your US representatives now.
Well, I wrote to every senator on the Senate Environmental and Public Works committee last night in anticipation of tomorrow’s hearings with Jackson and Chu, and plan to call Voinovich later today. Calls and letters from their own consitutuents count much more than those from other states.