From The Daily Caller
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren used the bitter cold sweeping the Midwest and Northeast to announce her full-throated support for a “Green New Deal.”
“Our children & grandchildren should grow up in a world where they can breathe the air & drink the water – and go outside without risking their lives in extreme temperatures,” the Democrat tweeted Thursday using the hashtag #PolarVortex2019.
The “polar vortex” event refers to an atmospheric phenomenon that’s brought extreme, record-breaking cold to millions of Americans, with temperatures 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero and wind chill down in the negative 50s and 60s. It’s the coldest weather many states have seen in decades, meteorologists say.
For example, Chicago hit negative 23 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the coldest since 1985. Mount Carroll, Illinois, recorded negative 38 degrees, which, if certified, would be the coldest temperature recorded in the state.
“It’s time to protect our planet & pass a Green New Deal,” said Warren, who’s considering running for president in 2020.
Our children & grandchildren should grow up in a world where they can breathe the air & drink the water – and go outside without risking their lives in extreme temperatures. It’s time to protect our planet & pass a Green New Deal. #PolarVortex2019 https://t.co/JYnVrxMf1t
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) January 31, 2019
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is joined by her husband Bruce Mann and their dog Bailey as she speaks to reporters, after announcing she has formed an exploratory committee to run for president in 2020, outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., Dec. 31, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The implication is that global warming is behind the record cold that’s forced factories to shut down, schools to close and taxed natural gas supplies across the country. Some climate scientists promote this theory, but many more disagree and see little to no data to back it up.
“The bottom line is that folks claiming that cold waves are increasing in the U.S. are ignoring observations and the peer-reviewed literature that state the opposite,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday.
This is the first time Warren endorsed a “Green New Deal.” The 2020 hopeful’s staff previously said she endorsed the “idea” of a “Green New Deal.” Other 2020 Democratic hopefuls, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey endorsed the proposal.
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the main proponent of a “Green New Deal” and is set to unveil legislative text as soon as next week. While the details are sparse, a “Green New Deal” calls for the U.S. to abandon fossil fuels within 10 years, federal job guarantees and universal health care.
That may be a hard sell as millions of Americans rely on coal and natural gas to keep the lights on while renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, provide only a fraction of energy demand amid the record cold.
Coal and natural gas provided about 75 percent of the Midwest’s electricity during the ongoing cold snap as of Thursday afternoon, according to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which oversees the region’s grid.
PJM Interconnection data for the Mid-Atlantic show coal and natural gas provided 68 percent of the electricity as temperatures plunged Thursday. Nuclear power also carried a major load, generating 26 percent of the region’s power.
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Eyes roll…
https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/01/31/rep-chellie-pingree-invites-whistleblower-to-state-of-the-union/
Reading all your comments about 21 people dying makes me very happy i am not an american idiot.
If this had been a mass killing, you would all scream about going to war
But it is climate related and you want to continue polluting the earth, so good luck over there.
” very happy i am not an american idiot. … it is climate related and you want to continue polluting the earth, …”
U.S. emissions are flat, unlike those of the developing world.
well you may not be an American but you surely are an idiot!
Cheers!
Joe
Mocking the alleged lack of intelligence in Americans is so last decade.
Why don’t you go lecture China, India, etc about polluting the earth, if you care so much about it?
Someone got to Elizabeth and Ocasio-Cortez
forcing them to make Sophie’s Choice.
Same with Bernie.
I wonder who forced this Sophists Choice?
A green new deal means mass depopulation, to save the population.
So it is not just snow is black or any shade of grey depending on the cost,
as Lord Bertrand Russell wrote, or cold is warm, but a pervasive hatred of humanity,
as Lord Russell expressed volubly :
“I hate the world and almost all the people in it. . . . I hate the planet and the human race. I am ashamed to belong to such a species,” wrote Russell to Colette (Lady Constance Malleson) in 1916, expressing the view he sought to propagate.
What does a pervasive hatred of humanity have to do with depopulation? What is the connection here?
Many commentators agree there should be less people in this planet from a sustainability perspective. I agree. It doesn’t mean that I hate humanity. It just means that people in sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines etc. should be having 2 rather than 6 children for example. Europe also doing well in depopulation – people just naturally wanting to have either less or no children. Doesn’t mean they “hate humanity”
“What does a pervasive hatred of humanity have to do with depopulation? What is the connection here?”
Millions of abortions a year?
Andrew
Why are abortions a hatred of humanity? Thank god women choose to have them. And there should be free government-subsidised contraception all over the world.
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Now, now life isn’t that bad is it? You may want to kill thoosands by denying AGW but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be on this planet. Free speech after all.
“Why are abortions a hatred of humanity?”
Because they kill a little human being?
Andrew
Free tablets for everyone on earth, this is the only humane and necessary solution.
There it is the everyone else should pay the classic socialist left catch cry.
So the person having the sex has no responsibility?
We could go the other extreme how about you need a license to have children … watch all the socialist lefties squirm because it means you have to have the financial capacity to afford a child.
A tiny problem in practice rather than preach Ivan.
It’s all been done before.
What da ya expect?
You seem to be unaware free government-subsidising anything usually ended up in long visits to a Gulag, or some place like Auschwitz in the past, to find a top performing. government subsidised solution.
That was based on well subsidised experiments in places like California using forced sterilisation for those “not fit to have kids”…
Are you aware it spawned monsters like Mengele?
If that wasn’t enough, that didn’t work, the USSR performed such a radical policy of abortion come the 80s it became state sponsored abortion.
Sadly that experiment was a dreadful failure too.
The reason why Russia now has a fatal demographic trend, is because almost EXACTLY the numbers of abortions performed (millions) is the numbers Russia today would need to have a healthy balanced demographic.
You better know what you want.
Go read a little about Stanley Millgram too.
It’s like any market, once the government claims it has the right to act and interfere in a market be it peanuts or human births, you can bet your ass, the result will be catastrophically failure or worse!
Look at what happened to the Aral sea!
What S-M proved is that people will commit mass murder for precisely the reasons which you think are good.
If you’re going to troll this site, fine, but at least present something scientific. Give us something peer reviewed to support your position, not an article from the NYT or something from CNN. If you don’t do that, you just come off as a troll living on cheetos and Mountain Dew down in your stepmom’s basement. There are a lot of highly educated scientists on this site who would likely be happy to engage you in a good faith discussion of climate science.
Personally, I won’t be engaging you further unless you have something of scientific substance to add to the discussion. Nothing else is worth my time and effort. I would suggest other people do the same.
Why are abortions a hatred of humanity?
Because they end human life. Every abortion is another dead human being. Why do you hate humanity so?
I’m trying to keep count on how many have died by pretentious elites forcing eco-policies.
Watching people like you try to claim the moral high ground literally makes me puke.
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Ivanksi, global warming hasn’t killed anyone, and never will.
On the other hand Forcing renewable energy on countries is already killing 10’s of thousands every year. You never complain about that.
The tiny amount of warming that CO2 may be capable is a 100% good thing. Fewer deaths, more crops, better gardens. Nothing to worry about.
If anything, MarkW, global warming would *save* lives as cold kills far more than warm every year.
The connection is amply explained by Dr. Schllnhuber, CBE (that’s commander of the british empire) who calculated the population with decarbonization – around 2 billion.
The intention to get rid of 5 billion people, keeping hands clean of course, is beyond hatred, exactly in line with Lord Bertrand Russell.
The question is who put Sophie’s Choice to Elizabeth and Alexandria?
In the movie a sadistic SS criminal, but now who I wonder?
You do know that in the Avengers movie “Infinity Wars” Thanos was the bad guy?
You sound just like him.
There isn’t a shred of evidence that the earth is anywhere close to being overpopulated.
Why do you hate people so much Ivanski?
Dog: This is my owner. Please help.
Warren’s Husband: This is my wife. Please help.
“U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is joined by her husband Bruce Mann ……”.
Mann, Mann … ? Where have I come across that name before? Hmmm?
Elisabeth Warned-You?
Dizzy Lizzie, like a lot of Warmunist retards, confuses and conflates actual pollution with the fake pollution, CO2.
Well there is some truth in this. We are the largest polluters of this fine earth and now we are paying the price, could this be karma ?
Nope. And what “price” exactly is it that we’re supposedly paying?
What is this “price” you speak of?
What’s this pollution that you speak of?
Who’s this “we” that you speak of?
It also appears to be a non-diverse Green New Deal.
Finishing the job Wilson and FDR started. I suppose when it gets really cold we could just burn the Constitution to warm the room, huh Liz? After you’ve shredded it, I suppose it’ll burn rather nicely.
Seriously though, and yes I mean that, has any “scientist” or scientist proposed any non-garbage, plausible hypothesis as to how increasing CO2 has affected the polar vortex or vortices?
The theory is proposed but little evidence .. even the leftist guardian acknowledges that … link is up above
Heap magical thinking.
The Progressive War on the Middle Class continues unabated via the “Green Raw Deal”, factories closed for a few days versus permanently.
“Green Raw Deal”
I like that description better! 🙂
Hey lady! It’s called “WINTER”.
In my opinion, Ms Warren finally caught on to AOC’s latest ploy.
When Cortez proposed free medical for all, she was laughed out of the arena when she couldn’t explain how it was to be funded. (“Just pay for it” was the best she could do.)
However by proclaiming our demise is only a dozen years away, they can now say it doesn’t matter what it costs; we have to DO SOMETHING.
What most folks are missing, is that the New Green Deal has the “skin” of a Climate Change effort (Part A), but the meat of DO SOMETHING it is in Part B, which is a list of all the desires of the Left including guaranteed wage, medical care and social justice, all to be defined and controlled by the Select Committee that would be formed.
So if Medical Care for all is ridiculed as a standalone, where are the same critics, including those in the Democrat Party when it is combined with their entire platform PLUS the elimination of fossil fuels?
You mention the skin and meat, but forgot the bones – those of 5 billion people to be eliminated by green ideology starting with the young old and ill, followed by the decarbonized able-bodied.
Greeniness is not a “leftie” “socialist” thingy – it is population reduction.
This new deal is not going to connect with the people and will be seen as a threat. So call it the New Green Teapot Dome Scandal or some other historical reference to scandal or policy plague.
When stupidity and dishonesty meet.
Outlaw pets in the New Green Deal and let’s see how that goes over.
I’d wear large, dark sunglasses too if I was around this staged nonsense.
Uhhhh . . . I thought that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had trademarked the term “Green New Deal.” Does this mean she’s collecting royalties from pretenders-to-the-throne Warren, Harris and Booker?
This woman doesn’t know the difference between cold and hot just like she can’t understand the difference between Indian and Caucassian! She definitely lives in a post-political (aka post-logical) world!
I see where some company (didn’t get the name) is going to be doing an advertisement promoting Windmills during the upcoming Super Bowl Feb. 3, 2019.
I have also heard a couple of news reports claiming the Super Bowl stadium in Atlanta will be powered exclusively by windmills and solar.
I don’t know about “exclusively” but the stadium does boast 4000+ solar panels:
https://mercedesbenzstadium.com/4000-georgia-power-solar-panels-place-mercedes-benz-stadium/
The company, btw, is Budweiser.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/02/budweiser-uses-super-bowl-ad-promote-wind-power/
This too shall pass…..But I doubt the debate-has-ended crowd will bother to look.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20SST-NorthAtlantic%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif
http://climate4you.com/images/ArgoTimeSeriesTemp59N.JPG
Say what you want about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but she is definitely dragging the entire Democrat field drastically to the left.
Well, she’s just the first of a long procession of rats called out by the Pied Piper Obama.
At this point the Dims seem to be in a race to find the biggest disaster they can inflict upon the country as their presidential nominee.
And as idiotic and ridiculous as they may seem, I don’t see anything funny about them at all – because half the damned country seem to be nodding bobble-heads, who will give them their vote – just so long as they point their discrimination and bigotries in the favored direction.
Promise the people enough free stuff, and a majority will vote for you.
Paid for by the evil rich. (Usually defined as anyone who makes more than I do.)
And the first and foremost part of that is the simple playground rule of giving them someone that it’s okay to hate – that way you can take from them with impunity – property, rights – even lives.
Happens every @ur momisugly##$#$%!! time. And always from the proclaimed moral high ground.
From the article: “While the details are sparse, a ‘Green New Deal’ calls for the U.S. to abandon fossil fuels within 10 years, . . .”
So, within 10 years, look for (1) the end of all passenger and cargo air transportation using US-based aircraft, (2) the end of all passenger and cargo transportation by US-based ocean-traveling ships, and (3) the end of all passenger and cargo transportation using US-based railroad locomotives.
Or perhaps, someone really believes any of these high energy density-storage dependent vehicles can be powered by electrical batteries within 10 years? And especially aircraft, where “fuel” mass and high instantaneous power output are critically important.
Also, say goodbye to the current SpaceX Falcon rockets and the ULA Atlas V rocket launch vehicles, which use RP-1 (a refined kerosene obtained from petroleum, a fossil fuel) as the fuel in their first stage rocket engines.
Not to mention the end to anything made from plastic (plastic comes from petrochemicals, IE fossil fuels) – so everyone needs to ditch those iPhone and iPads and TVs. And cloths, unless its 100% made from cotton or wool or other natural fibers. Good by polyester and nylon. time to clean out those closets.
And no hydrocarbon-derived fertilizer for the cotton, or tractor-driven hay balers to feed the sheep!
And no butane-fueled little fires to light the marijuana they’ve legalized.
drednicolson, that last sentence of yours might be the single thing that ends any chance of the Green New Deal coming to fruition . . . it will be “green” fighting “green”.