In case you haven’t heard about it, the Senate is having a “denier bashing fest” while they bask in the warmth provided by steam from the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant.
If Jim Hansen and Senator Tim Wirth can turn up the heat (like he did in a Senate hearing in 1988 by turning off the A/C in summer), you’d think these clowns would have the good sense to turn off the fossil fueled heat while they tell everyone how wrong it is to use fossil fuels.
Watch live here:
http://www.c-span.org/live/?channel=c-span-2
The Washington Post says it is little more than a fund raiser
Senate Democrats’ donor-friendly global warming show
On Monday night into Tuesday morning, two dozen Senate Democrats — members of the party’s newly-formed Climate Action Task Force — plan to hold an all-night, filibuster-like talkathon on the issue of global warming. “Congress must act,” Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz, a leader of the group, said in a statement. “On Monday night we’re going to show the growing number of senators who are committed to working together to confront climate change.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/senate-democrats-donor-friendly-global-warming-show/article/2545354
Joel O’Bryan says: [March 10, 2014 at 8:25 pm]
“They doing this to extract/capture campaign donations, first and foremost.”
True, so true. But the gall of it all is that they are really plucking recycled taxpayer dollars – the ones that were fed as “subsidies” and “investments” and price-guarantees to the green gravy trains of solar, wind, and ethanol firms who not only get gummint funds but also get guaranteed markets by gummint fiat!
That’s about as sweet as teacher unions negotiating labor contracts with school boards packed with teacher-union hacks elected with teacher-union dues.
That’s what the Corrupt Left calls “sustainability”
Took a look – happened to catch the NM representative.
Curious how New Mexico’s Heinrich dwells at such length on snowfall and snowpack, comparing 2010 to this winter. Snow water Equivalent is up in 2014 between 20 – 30 % above the mean in nearly every NM drainage.
New Mexico SNOTEL Snowpack Update Report:
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/reports/UpdateReport.html;jsessionid=TrqklQQtY5RxavMluPBNU7It?report=New+Mexico&format=SNOTEL+Snowpack+Update+Report
This is a stunt, just like every single aspect of the entire anthropogenic global warming fraud industry. The Dems are so scared of the midterms, considering, Fast and Furious, Bengazi, NSA, Snowden, IRS-Gate, Obamacare, Solyndra, Crimea, Syria, Gun-Control, etc etc as if all that wasn’t enough, they have to gin-up the base so that a few straggler dems might be able to hang on and squeak out a Senate Majority. This is very desperate show-boating dems to dem-supporters.
They are shouting to the already-enlisted.
Me? All I care about is doing science and this clown show is all politics. No science here.
IgnoreFunction>On.
It is good that WUWT is covering this rationally because otherwise it might be taken seriously, again.
Correction to my comment above at 10:27: SNOTEL snowpack report references the median snow-water equivalent, not the mean.
The American Senate has a large population of dunderheads who still believe that temperatures are accelerating upward. They must never had looked at the scientific evidence and graphs. They are probably as ignorant about what is going on in Crimea, Ukraine and Moscow. They refuse to investigate these issues for themselves. They probably don’t know where Crimea. Ukraine and even Moscow are. They certainly don’t know where the Climatic evidence is.
Of course, something that most people do not know is that every elected member of Congress has the right to edit the report of their remarks before it goes into the official Congressional Register. All of the most outlandish comments will disappear from the official records before they are committed to hard copy.
Ukraine going down, Baltics likely next, if Stalin the Second isn’t stopped –
Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Here’s the cure. A billboard campaign showing:
Image—A hockey stick with its shaft slanting upwards & to the right and its blade flat, overlaid on a running mean chart of global temperatures.
Caption—Who’s in Denial Now?
Live Arrested Puberty. Only if you have ever been a parent do you get to see this…….
Does the white smoke mean they elected a new pope? (It IS smoke isn’t it? Same as you see coming out of power station cooling towers? Maybe someone should Photoshop it black so there can be no mistake!)
Good old Inhofe: http://www.c-span.org/video/?318185-6/senators-inhofe-boxer-climate-change
The most important step to make is CLEAN HOUSE.
I thought UK had some potty & corrupt politicians, but in the stupid races Washington wins by a mile. Yet they still get voted in….what does that say about the population ???
“Al Franken just said that all the Cold this winter was caused by Global Warming. And we should expect more cold winters. Then says there are propane shortages. That’s all I could take.”
Cut the guy some slack, he is a comedian after all…
@Mike Ozanne – As for Franken being a comedian, I never found his comedy funny. But I find his tenure as a senator to be hilarious.
@R. de Haan, I like Inhofe’s talk, but he could do with more direct rebuttals of alarmists’ talking points, taking them apart one by one. Anyway, decent job.
Climate Council says the summer was ‘another example of climate change tearing through the record books’
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/10/climate-action-call-as-another-angry-summer-breaks-156-heat-records
no wonder the political class think its fact when u see articles like this that state ‘as fact; “Rising temperatures driven by the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide place Australians at increased risk from extreme weather events, including heatwaves, drought and bushfires, the report stated.”
the co2ers say only climate scientists are fit to talk on this subject but its politicians who have to make the decision. So the appeal is to ‘trust’ the scientists because everyone else is too thick to understand it? Sounds like ego inflation?
maybe they should read why ‘wierdo words’ are no longer enough
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100262659/public-apathy-on-climate-change-is-a-cause-for-celebration-not-concern/
Chad Wozniak –
Ukraine went down already – our “friends in Kiev” apparentlly attended a World Bank Carbon Finance Partnership for Market Readiness meeting in Mexico City, held between 3-5 March:
10 Mar: Bloomberg/Businessweek: Matthew Carr: Switzerland Seeks Precision as Nations Shape Carbon Markets (1)
South Africa, Brazil and Ukraine are among countries considering carbon markets that met last week in Mexico City under the auspices of the Partnership for Market Readiness, a World Bank program to develop nations’ emissions trading…
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-10/switzerland-seeks-precision-as-30-nations-shape-carbon-markets
pdf: World Bank Carbon Finance Org: The Partnership for Market Readiness
Shaping the Next Generation of Carbon Markets
The PMR is made up of Contributing Participants who provide financial support to the PMR Trust Fund, and Implementing Country Partici-pants (listed be-low in proposed activities tables) who receive PMR funding…
PMR Implementing Country Participants—Proposed Activities in Other Regions
(SEE UKRAINE)
https://wbcarbonfinance.org/docs/PMR_Brochure_v2.pdf
pdf: PMR Update: Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR): Update Since PA7
Eighth Meeting of the Partnership Assembly Mexico City, Mexico
March 3-5, 2014
http://www.thepmr.org/system/files/documents/PA8_Update.pdf
They would gain much more credibility if they used the time to debate the GW subject with qualified sceptics. It really is staggering that no one promoting the AGW agenda has the courage to suggest an open debate in order to prove that in which they are so confident, and which they do so much shouting about.
I just heard from the Connecticut senator that the lobsters of his state ..”are not as dumb as you think..” Having watched and listened for a little while I reckon in that case he should maybe take a lesson from them ’cause he sure was sounding dumber than the lobsters with his comments about maple syrup and strawberry farmers. Oh, it has been a long night hasn’t it, perhaps delirium from sleep depravation has set in.
We have precisely the government that we deserve, we elected it, we paid for it and we tolerate it.
Everything these Senators say is being permanently recorded in the Congressional Record. What they are doing is putting on an un-editable record every alarmist
factconjecture about the existence of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. Skeptics are being presented with the warmist’s petard with which to hoist them.Not so! They all either end or begin their spiels with the worlds “I reserve the right to amend or extend my remarks as needed.” What that means is they will edit out the things they know are completely loony from the record so they can deny they ever said it. They know that the soundbites will have the desired impact on the low info voter, but they will point to the amended congressional record as proof they didn’t really say something so stupid when confronted by people who know their BS is BS.
they actually say words – don’t know where that “L” slid in there from. Wouldn’t want to live in “worlds” emitting from political oral orifices.
youtube: The IPCC Exposed
By the Corbett report
Many so called IPCC ‘top’ scientists are “still 10 years away from a PHD”.
Who really are the hysteric alarmists?
With now all the exposed fraudulent papers, illegally withholding data, admitted manipulated studies and admissions of scientists lying, perhaps the shrieking ‘Warmists’ are the real ‘Deniers’.
youtube:
The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie ” The club of Rome…
Now Rothschilds bought a weather broadcasting network (gee, I wonder why??? DUH), Google it:
EL Rothschild buys stake in Weather Central – FT.com
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/67ee5828-2d8d-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html –
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youtube: The Rothschilds Exposed 3/3
(Just see the last 3 minutes) you will understand
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Related:
The ideological basis for ‘environmentalism’
youtube:
Exposed -WWF & Prince Philip – The World Wildlife Fund
Published on Nov 23, 2013
The RINOs and the democrats want to hand our taxes and law making over to the UN.
The UN is ramming ‘Agenda 21’ and ‘Common Core’ down the throats of the world, the UN’s World Bank is complicit in forcing poor farmers off their own land in Africa and South America for corporate and university endowment ‘tree farm/carbon credit’ investments, is deeming sovereign resources off limits, trying to eliminate (citizen’s only) the right to bear arms, our country’s sovereignty and our individual freedoms and now trying to force a ‘world’ climate change tax and ‘world’ wealth tax on us AND under the guise of saving us from asteroids, the UN is NOW trying co-opt our US space program, it’s technology, resources and MORE OF OUR TAXES.
We must start with voting the RINOs and democrats OUT 2014
So now the UN noticed Bloomberg’s dictatorial impositions on New Yorkers and has appointed him to be bulldozer for the UN’s climate change world tax.
Through imposed ignorance we are handing over our resources, funding (taxes), technology and sovereign decision making to basically an unelected, new monarchy (UN)made up of mostly 3rd world dictatorships who are just tools of a few dynastic families.
… time to reduce federal to it’s constitutional mandate, defund regulatory down to our country’s essential needs, defund the IRS and the Department of Education, re-coup our state’s rights, take back federal land -our state’s property from the feds), time to take back control of our own waterways and national parks and de-fund the UN, kick them out of our country, claw back pensions and restitution of it’s assets.
Vote out the RINOs and all left progressives.