Wow. This one is really something. Graham goes from supporter to skeptic in the space of a few weeks. Here’s the quote:
“I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question…”
Graham appeared on Wednesday at a press conference with Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. Yesterday, Graham said he didn’t think any energy bill could get 60 votes this year because oil drilling has become too controversial. Today he decided, at the last minute, to back Lugar’s bill.
Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugar’s bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldn’t pass a “half-assed” bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesn’t think pricing carbon is that important. “The science about global warming has changed,” he noted, offhandedly. “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question,” Graham told reporters. “The whole movement has taken a giant step backward.”
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Lindsey “finger in the changing wind” Graham.
Wow, who would have thought that! Well, I must admit “When the Facts change I change my mind, what do you do sir” is always a good line. I applaud the integrity of anyone who will say something like that… Even when they d have different view then my own.
The man is not to be trusted.
He was an OK congressman for the 3rd district of SC, but he has been an absolute snake in the grass as a senator. If John McCain had passed gas Lindsey’s eardrums would have popped.
So the take home message is the Woods Institute did not survey Graham.
I did see his point before. Better to be at the table, than to be told about it later.
And I appreciate Graham’s low key attitude about it. What we really need is more people acting like it’s a non-issue, instead of all the hysterics that we are tired of.
Looks like AGW has reached another tipping point
Well, its certainly a step in the right direction. Now, if Congress had actually dissapproved the EPA of its endangerment finding about CO2, we’ll really have been getting somewhere!
http://www.examiner.com/x-39383-Capitalist-Examiner~y2010m6d10-Senate-to-vote-on-disapproval-of-EPAs-CO2-endangerment-finding
The Worm turns.
I talked to Senator Burr (R) yesterday and he thinks Cap & trade is a big no no. Congressman Bob Etheridge (D), who i voted for, is a real sleaze. I took a close look at him and he is pro big corporations all the way and anti farmer. Looks Like I will be at the livestock auctions and farmers markets passing info about this idiot for the rest of the summer. I could not catch my other senator or his office.
In the immortal words of Kang and Kodos (Simpson’s reference): “Holy flarging shnit!” That’s one heck of a 180! Quite frankly, I believe he is just going with the flow and/or feeling the effect the upheaval at the polls lately, but for Graham to publicly call into question the science and point out the fact that it’s all been oversold is a major step in the right direction. I’m trying not to read too much into this, but there may be hope for the People’s Republic yet!
One wet finger in the wind. At least it was his index finger and not the third one! We may be gaining on them.
Got to give credit where credit is due: Lindsay Graham is no dummy, having correctly detected the direction of the prevailing wind. Oversold and blown out of all proportion, AGW may soon join the Yugo at the compactor.
Lemon Law applies.
He and the other previous cap & trade supporters can take this stance because they know that Jackson’s EPA will do what they don’t have the backbone to do. This way they can say they’re against C&T without backing off of their baseline agenda.
This is apparently huge. Kerry and Liberman must be at the Senate lounge drinking
highballs about now….
One wet finger in the wind. At least it was his index finger and not the third one! We may be gaininZg on them.
Only three votes short — and those will be made up in November.
Somebody clued him in; Inhofe was lucky but he was right.
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Is this a surprise? The Bilderberg Group met in Spain (3 – 6 June) and one of the topics for discussion was Global Cooling! See http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting2010.html. The writing has been on the wall since Climategate and Copenhagen. It will be be interesting to see how governments and policy wonks retreat over this change of direction. I fear that many reputations are going to suffer and that science and environmentalism in general will take a hammering.
Lindsay Graham has never had a clue about the science. With his leader and mentor, John McCain trying desperately to demonstrate his ‘conservative’ credentials in order to keep his Arizona seat, Lindsay is simply adrift. So long as it helps kill Crap and Tax, we should applaud. But don’t count on him for anything.
Marc Morano was just on John Bachelor’s show. He was happy about Lindsay’s sudden conversion, but minced no words in describing him as completely untrustworthy.
Don’t underestimate the Obama administration’s ability to twist arms in the Senate, though. It ain’t over till the fat alarmist (you know, the Goracle) sings.
/Mr Lynn
Lindsey represents what I’ve claimed for a while – he doesn’t know the difference between Carbon-MONOxide and Carbon-DIOxide…. “he doesn’t want to get out and breath car exhaust…” duh… yeah once someone explains the difference he’s libel to care even less about carbon in the atmosphere.
You can’t trust him. Talk about turning on a dime.
Maybe he started reading the is website.
Lindsey, spewing what you think your people want to hear doesn’t cut it anymore. Clearly, you are starting to understand this. You said “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, ….” You were one of the lemmings that bought it. If you can’t discern reality from fantasy, then you don’t deserve the privilege of service to this nation nor your countrymen nor the people of South Carolina. I know people from South Carolina, you do a great disservice to those people. You reflect on them an a very skewed manner. You would do the best service to your people by stepping down. If you are intellectually unable to discern truth, and morally unable to see the harm you’ve helped create, then you, by your actions and words, are not fit to serve.
damnit!! Not “an a”, but rather “in a” very skewed…..
Raredog says:
June 10, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Is this a surprise? The Bilderberg Group met in Spain (3 – 6 June) and one of the topics for discussion was Global Cooling! See http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting2010.html.
I’m not seeing any well informed scientists on the guestlist. Or any agenda. Your source for the statement about global cooling?
Another prominate conservative that should have been in the skeptic ranks but wasn’t, is Bill O’Reilly. I wonder when he will do his 180?
Hi tallbloke
tallbloke says:
June 10, 2010 at 10:53 pm
I’m not seeing any well informed scientists on the guestlist. Or any agenda. Your source for the statement about global cooling?
Only the website I gave but global cooling, as opposed to global warming, is mentioned on the second line. Knowing only a little about the once secretive Bilderberg group I suspect that they may be talking about the notion of global cooling in a political sense, in the same way that global warming was (or still is) as much political as it is scientific or environmental in terms of policy direction. This group has in the past had some influence on the West’s political direction; I can only assume that this may be the case here given the problems currently faced by the global warming political dialectic.
Inside congressional sources say:
“With Graham’s dramatic reversal the cap & trade part of the bill is dead.”
Hopefully:
“Ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch, ding dong the wicked witch is dead.”
OT, but here’s what happens when Prince Charles talks to more than just his plants…
“Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285332/Follow-Islamic-way-save-world-Charles-urges-environmentalists.html#ixzz0qVedA7z5
If only we could be as ‘green’ as the Saudis. Or Indonesia.