Chris White | Energy Reporter
House Republicans scuttled a climate change hearing Tuesday before it began after too few Democrats showed up to contest adjournment.
The House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations adjourned the hearing after Republicans secured a majority of votes. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas excused the members after determining the subject matter of the hearing was outside of committee jurisdiction.
“Based on the title of today’s hearings, it seems the majority is focused on science and public health issues, which are great. We just don’t have that jurisdiction,” Gohmert said, noting the hearing was the seventh the Oversight Committee held on climate change in February. (RELATED: House Democrats Held The First Climate Change Hearings In Six Years. It Was A Mess)
He added: “It can be inferred from the hearing’s title that there is industry denial about climate change. It appears today’s tittle is well within our committee’s jurisdiction. I move that we adjourn.”
Democrats were outvoted 4-2, with several members of the majority party missing from the House Committee. Those who were present bickered briefly over whether the hearing could be adjourned.
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Reps. TJ Cox of California and Debbie Dingell of Michigan were the only two Democrats to vote against dismissal. The hearing was titled “The Denial Playbook: How Industries Manipulate Science and Policy from Climate Change to Public Health” and included an eclectic variety of witnesses.
One witness was retired NFL player Chris Borland, who retired from the San Francisco 49ers after sustaining several concussions. He was there to discuss the dangers of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurological condition football players sometimes experience after repeated blows to the head.
People hold placards as they attend a protest asking for urgent measures to combat climate change in Paris, France, February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
Conservatives were surprised at the lack of Democratic attendance.
“This is classic Democrat behavior,” Rachel Bovard, a policy director at the Conservative Policy Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“They introduce sweeping resolutions and then don’t want to vote on them,” she said. “They shame everyone for using fossil fuels while jetting around in Suburbans and private planes. And now, when faced with an opportunity to actually engage in a substantive policy discussion on the issue, they can’t be bothered to even show up.”
Democrats have been pushing the climate change narrative hard leading up to the 2020 election. Three Democratic 2020 presidential candidates gave a preview of how aggressively they will push global warming policies on the campaign trail during Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s EPA administrator.
Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Bernie Sanders of Vermont sparred with Wheeler over the urgency of global warming and rolling back Obama-era regulations.
“You are the nominee to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency and you just in your opening statement did not mention the word climate change,” Sanders said during the hearing.
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“It can be inferred from the hearing’s title that there is industry denial about climate change.”
That’s too bad.
Here is a little summary of climate science that may help deniers to see the light
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/28/climate-science-explained/
I actually took the time to read through it and did a search for “sarc”, but it was nowhere to find.
The sad thing is that I even have family members, who bark up that climate tree.
Sorry.
sarc it is sir.
This is typical of the left, everywhere, not just in the USA, they do not actually believe a word of what they’re saying at the political level. Only the fools who vote for them believe in “glass-ceilings”, and “green energy”, and other Trojan-Horses and Stalking-Horses. Any ideological veneer and any proxy-‘religion’ will do, if it gets them authoritah and powwah.
It’s all political tactics with a thin veil of mouthed ideology. Just this time the veil fell away when no one could be bothered to show up.
“There is no planet B”. We see this slogan all the time, but it isn’t true. Planet B is that planet where the computer models actually work.
Yes but that planet only exists in computer models.
So it is true.
The Green Deal has turned to kryptonite for Democrats . They won’t be anywhere around
it . A plan hatched over a weekend of binge drinking is one thing but as seems to be a pattern with Pelosi
she apparently doesn’t read this kind of crap before the eco- anarchists launch it
. An internal coup by the green operatives . Mirror mirror on the wall AOC just stole the ball .
Hard to get traction when your own party is determined to self destruct .
I want to see a hearing on:
Title: “THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND HOW IT CAN AND CANNOT BE USED APPLIED IN UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING VERIFIABLE EFFECTS OF “MAN-MADE”
Subtitle: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE ADVOCATES, ESPECIALLY GOVERNMENT, PUSH DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND MISUSE SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC DATA.