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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Elizabeth Warren Uses Coldest ‘Polar Vortex’ In Decades To Call For ‘Green New Deal’ To Fight Global Warming
Can an adult be that stupid?
“Can an adult be that stupid?” Yes … next question?
Can an adult be that stupid?
the Democrat party gives us plenty examples of adults being that stupid (and worse), so as unbelievable as it may seem, the answer is yes.
adult? more like a dolt!
It is amusing to note that those who make outlandish claims that cold is hot and vice versa only have two solutions; increased taxes and increased regulation, neither of which can have the slightest effect on the weather or climate.
Well yes and no. In theory if man’s actions are the cause of the weather or climate, then regulating those actions would have an effect. In reality, since man’s actions do not control the weather or climate what you says is true. For most sane people reality trumps theory, for leftist and alarmists theory trumps reality.
And the rabidness enters in because Trump has played the reality card.
(I miss the edit function. But I understand why it’s gone.)
The rabidness enters in because it is President Trump who is playing the reality card.
The message to the unwashed is to not look beyond the tag line and don’t think about the weak science (models) that is getting weaker. They paid good money for that tag line after all, from the brightest minds in political marketing.
Good thing for Pocahontas that PT Barnum (or whoever said it) may have been correct with the line “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
I’m kind of thinking that no amount of cold in reality will change their minds and agenda. We will have glaciers advancing and record cold for decades and they’ll still be blaming CO2.
We had almost 18+ years of statistically insignificant warming during a period when CO2 was increasing steadily and while a few honest scientists threw in the towel (Dr Lovelock, Dr Bates, etc) most just rationalised it and kept ignoring reality.
Would 2 decades of cold change their minds? At this point from what I’ve seen I doubt it.
“I’m gonna get me, um, a beer,”
“Scratch that, a double of whiskey and Coke, hold the Coke.”
Pocahontas is running for president. Possibly one of the few who might be worse than Hillary, that’s a might be. She will say or do anything to help her toward that goal. Again, the frightening thing is how many really stupid people there must be in this greatest of all countries to believe the lies being told by these left wing idiots.
Her policy choices are certainly as bad as Hillary’s as is her pandering to the left, but she hasn’t done anything as bad as the various Hillary scandals (or if she did, unlike Hillary, she’s managed to keep it well hidden). for example, faking being native American pales in comparison to the email server or whitewater.
Or the money grubbing Clinton Cartel which approved selling 20% of our uranium to Russia among other things. You are right. Hillary is worse. But how do you rank these shills? Disgusting, disgustinger, and disgustingest?
She’s never been in a position to pull of the corruption that Hillary is known for.
And Hillary’s infamous “We came , we saw, we murdered” ,when Obama obliged the WH to watch live the Qaddafi overthrow. Hillary is responsible for the Benghazi deaths and the Med. Migrant crisis and had the incredible chutzpah to advise Europe now to slow migration down!
Warren is nowhere near that – yet.
You raise an interesting point. Which country has the fewest percentage buying into the “CO2 controls the climate meme?”. It would be an interesting way to measure a societies critical thinking capacity.
I’m not sure if it is dishonesty, stupidity, greed or brainwashing via repetition. To me it would seem that the scientists are greed, the politicians could be all of the above but the vast majority of the rank and file I think have just been brainwashed by the near saturation propaganda.
Ignorance on a neighborhood block near you……….with cameras.
It’s really not so different from the red scare teleplay episode in the original Twilight Zone series.
I have a solution for green deal devotees like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who have suddenly developed a phobia about extreme cold – move to Mexico. Temperatures in Mexico City seem ideal – 5-22 degrees C in January, 12-24 C in July. But do it now, before The Don builds the wall.
How will reducing American emissions abate global warming when the developing world’s emissions rising trend dwarfs it?
Words are magic. Especially Climate Change. It can explain everything. Cold, warm, rain, storms, its all climate change and peoble are convinced that it is because the average temperature have risen only 1 Kelvin.
Think of the temperature changes over days, months and years. And then some get obset of a small change like 1K. If 1K is enough then Illinois must have serious climate change for the moment.
soooooo let me get this straight… the “greenies” are afraid of the impending “climate” and the vagaries of the weather but they want to get rid of reliable energy sources and become 100% dependent on energy sources that are unreliable and 100% dependent on the weather. Guaranteed not to be available when you need them most!! Wow…… what a smart plan………. it still boggles my mind how anyone that can add 2+2 and get 4 doesn’t laugh hysterically and point at the person/persons who say such idiotic crap.
Cheers!
Joe
oh.. rant off/
I saw a story today where she apologized to the Cherokee Nation for having that DNA test done. She didn’t apologize for claiming she was part Cherokee. Only for the have the DNA test done that showed more Europeans Americans have a better claim to being part “Native American” than she does.
(Paving the way for her run for president. “But I said I was sorry!”)
So now she’s trying to attach herself to that Nut from New York’s “Green New Deal” to stop the Polar Vortex’s cold that Global Warming has caused.
What does she want to do?
Build a Wall around the Arctic?
When the ice gets a mile thick over NY they will still be blaming it on man made global warming.
Well of course they will, didn’t you ever see “the day after tomorrow” – global warming leads to ice ages.
But do the Greenies, especially the young ones, realise that if we close down everything, including manufacturing, then we the country you live in, will not have the money to buy all of their electronic toys. that they love to play with.
Perhaps then the younger Greens will tell their Elder s to get lost, and go for Nuclear.
Another thought , if people of the USA vote for the likes of this lady, does that mean that they are as nutty as her. Or is it a case of saying that the party, in this case the Democrats , are not on the whole “Like her” But wait, someone must have voted for her in the first place.
MJE
I had to rush that post because dinner was calling. I did not mean to say I think there is justification for claiming polar air incursions actually happen more often, only that I can see the warmists trying to make that claim.
SR
Sadly, there are a lot of people who vote “their” party regardless of how incompetent the candidate or how much better the “other” parties candidate. I recall discussing an upcoming presidential election with a co-worker (this was back in the 90s). Facts and policy issues made no difference to him. His family always voted Democrat and he would too. Even though he was more in agreement with the policies the Republican candidate was running on didn’t matter. He was a Democrat, and that’s who he’d vote for no matter what.
Elizabeth Warren Uses Coldest ‘Polar Vortex’ In Decades To Call For ‘Green New Deal’ To Fight Global Warming
The claim was that global warming is causing polar air temperatures to rise above the historical norms.
Now, the claim is that global warming caused polar air to move down to the temperate latitudes this week.
I can see how they might try to claim polar comes south more often these days, but how can they say thatpolar air is colder than it used to be as a result of global warming?
SR
I wonder what Athens, Greece thinks of their former Fin. Min. , very fake, Varoufakis pushing the Green New Deal with Bernie and now Elizabeth and Alexandria?
Along with a very fake Bitcoin version of Keynes’ Bancor world currency that FDR blocked at the Bretton Woods 1944?
Talk about Tales from the Crypt-o-currency!
https://www.google.com/search?q=majestatis+pluralis+definition&oq=majestatis+pluralis+definition&aqs=chrome.
When the Roman emperors came over the ever cloud dizzle hanging Alps.
And asked:
Who is your speaker.
WHOM SHOULD WE TALK WITH!
majestatis pluralis.