Guest “Math class is tough” by David Middleton
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
House Democrats unite to send firm climate signal to Biden
Democrats across the ideological spectrum want strong climate change action as part of any legislative action this year.By ANTHONY ADRAGNA
07/01/2021
Nearly 60 percent of the House Democratic caucus is urging President Joe Biden to ensure massive climate change and other environmental investments make it into whatever final form of infrastructure legislation emerges this year.
More than 120 members, led by Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and spanning the ideological spectrum from Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) to centrist Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), are reiterating their support for measures like a clean energy standard, significant electric vehicle investments and 10-year clean energy tax credits as part of the eventual agreement. It’s a signal that Democrats across the ideological spectrum want strong climate change action as part of any legislative action this year.
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Politico
Why are numbers so problematic for journalists?
- “Nearly 60 percent…”
- “More than 120 members…”
The number of signatories was 134, including “/s/” electronic signatures. It wasn’t too difficult to count the actual number.
There are currently 220 Democrat and 211 Republican members of the US House of Representatives. 4 seats are vacant.
- 134/220 = 0.609
134 signatories would be 61% of House Democrats.
- 134/431 = 0.3109
134 signatories would be 31% of the House of Representatives.
It doesn’t appear that Alexandria Occasional Cortex, or any other members of “The Squad, were among the signatories. So, as fracking moronic as this letter was, it wasn’t moronic enough for the Democrats’ true crazies.
The author of this article has 2010 BA in History from Middlebury College… Which explains the McKibben-style math, Anthony Adragna and Politico earn a Teen Talk Barbie Award.
Help us Obi Wan Joe Manchin, you’re our only hope!
Reconciliation appears likely to fall flat with both WV senators
Bipartisan framework for infrastructure can’t turn back on fossil fuels, West Virginia Sen. Manchin underscores
Package would help rebuild roads, bridges, water facilities; add broadband
by Matt Harvey MANAGING EDITOR Jun 24, 2021WASHINGTON (WV News) — With a bipartisan framework in place for a sweeping federal infrastructure deal, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. — one of the key players in Congress on the matter — gave a strong signal that any efforts to insert anti-fossil-fuel energy tenets would be a poison pill for him.
Manchin credited U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who worked with a Republican group of senators to try to reach an infrastructure deal with the White House, for providing the framework the bipartisan group used.
Manchin and Capito gave strong indications that the infrastructure bill will need to pass through the regular Senate format requiring 60 or more votes, not through reconciliation. Manchin estimated that, at least for now, there are about 65 senators who would agree to the infrastructure bill.
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WV News
Primitive societies had shamen that claimed they could control the local climate, if you gave them resources and did what they told you.
These are your Democrats.
It’s embarassing how primtive many people still are.
Epstein promised if rich folks tossed a couple of young nubile virgins into his Virgin Island paradise, the climate gods would be appeased. H Maria was not not impressed. Not enough virgins apparently.
Works for old faithful too.
Unfortunately, even those who consider themselves ‘woke’ (maybe especially them), haven’t really evolved much from those of the Bronze Age. We have a far superior technology, but most still operate under the influence of their remnant reptilian brain.
Math is hard for libs.
It’s why they skipped STEM in college and went for Gender Studies, PolySci, and Climate Propaganda related degrees for the BA. No math involved, not only NOT required, but a hinderance to the narrative.
Back in the day, Physical Geography was considered a humanities course; lots and lots of engineering majors took Physical Geography. I don’t remember any paranoia about impending climate catastrophe, but this was well before the onset of the Mann-era.
I took Physical Geography my first semester in college, fall 1976. Reid Bryson was one of the authors of the textbook. I learned all about the Koeppen Climate Classification System, the textbook even mentioned the greenhouse effect… No mention of climate change though. This was 12 years before Al Gore invented Gorebal Warming.
Biden was in 3 states today….. confusion, unconsciousness, and disorientation.
confusion after breakfast; unconscious for his afternoon nap; disorientation when he woke up again.
Come on, man! He’s got it covered.
It’s plain elderly abuse!
Biden has been living there, now, for a few years. It has become his permanent address, in fact.
Perhaps brought on from sniffing the residual volatiles in hair shampoo used by young women?
Just 54 more to go for him to reach all 57 states that Obama claimed to have visited.
Democrats across the ideological spectrum
What “spectrum” is that?
It runs from Maoism to Stalinism, with a pinch of Pol Pot thrown in to give it more range!
It’s the full spectrum of the lamestream media’s visual spectrum… Oh wait, it’s not even that… The AOC extremely moronic left didn’t sign on.
They probably disagreed about the 2035 date, wanting 2030 or 2025 instead.
Might as well be 3035, still isn’t going to happen.
They probably wanted 2020
David,
Have you heard that all university level psychology texts are being revised? They will now include a picture of AOC in the section on Dunning Kruger effect! That makes it SO much easier for students to understand!
Autism
It’s the far infrared I believe
Speculum. He meant to say “ideological speculum.”
Disorder spectrum?
So, 40% of Dems don’t want this climate madness.
It only needs a handful for Biden to lose his majority ( and only one in the Senate)
Some of that 40% didn’t sign the letter because it wasn’t sufficiently economically destructive.
Perhaps it overtaxed their reading skills (AOC’s for sure).
David,
As Gilligan might say, “Not only that, Professor, almost half of them signed the letter!”
You are both correct.
“So, 40% of Dems don’t want this climate madness.”
That’s the way I read it. 🙂
Make sure at the same time, they are not eligible to use diesel power generators, only green generators for them, that is what they want give it to them. How much power does the green renewable’s produce. That means no power at night when the wind is not blowing. Only supply that amount to their home, their offices and so on. I know in Australia the power co has the ability to turn off our hot water service with the flick of a switch, I suspect our main power supply they can do exactly the same. Make them Very very popular with their neighbours.
oops
Hamster-driven exercise wheels connected to a small generator used for bicycle lights.
i.e. a group of, what effectively are, petulant children stamping their feet and demanding that ‘Daddy’ fixes the weather
What Happened Here? How did it all go soooo wrong?
Suicidal Insanity because any ‘fixes’ they apply:
….tax, regulation, price rises from inflation & money printing, good paying jobs, stealing from Rich People….
are only going increase overall resource consumption and make everything worse
A lovely clue is in the word ‘paying’, an oft misquoted cliche applies of course..
“The love of money is…..
That they really do think ‘money’ can solve all problems
Do you Live to Work…or…..Work to Live?
Contemporary Western Governments do neither
What is amazing is that these people think the U.S. alone can influence the climate. Given Chin and India alone, we cannot have much impact (if even measurable). Can these people not see that there is no “climate wall” around the U.S. that isolates us from the rest of the world?
We are turning ourseleves into a pretzel while the rest of the world jets ahead.
Yes, but it’s the principal.
Virtue signaling!
And the principal is money for the insiders.
Not to mention the interest.
The socialist construct called per capita emissions produces this effect where only the Western world emissions count towards changing the climate. Just ask Griff, Loydo, TFN,Nick Stokes, etc.
Democrats are all over the map then, regarding “climate change”, from not giving a hooty-tooty, to spittle-flecked, flaming AOC/Bernie-style US-hating demagoguery.
Good. Divide and conquer.
Cool! This hopefully means Congress will do NOTHING. Which would be a huge improvement over their “efforts” the last several decades.
Oh, they’ll certainly do something. Increase spending and the debt, more taxes and fees, increased regulation, etc. Those will be permanent. Actual decarbonization – not so much.
As Mark Twain observed, “No man is safe while Congress is in session.” I believe the Founding Fathers (Fathers: AKA non-birthing people) understood the problem and instituted so many checks and balances. It should be difficult to pass legislation.
For liberals math is what you make. And A lot of people don’t read beyond the headlines.
If conventional energy is destroyed it won’t be pretty and neither will forcing people into something they don’t want and won’t work.
Maybe they should stop calling it fossil fuel, might put some honesty into the debate.
The most important fact about today’s environmental movement, and the clean energy exploitations this book explores is that the United States of America, the largest economy in the history of mankind, representing 4 percent of the world’s population (330 million vs 7.8 billion) could literally shut down, and cease to exist, and the opposite of what you have been told and believe will take place.
Simply put, in the United States, every person, animal, or anything that causes emissions to harmfully rise could vanish off the face of the earth; or even die off, and global emissions will still explode in the coming years and decades ahead over the population and economic growth of China, India, and Africa.
The book “Clean Energy Exploitations” helps citizens attain a better understanding that just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity that is dependent on favorable weather conditions, the wealthier and healthier countries like Germany, Australia, Britain, and America continue to exploit the most vulnerable people and environments of the world today.
If Joe Manchin is your only or last hope you are in trouble indeed. He is the fellow who shows up when not needed.
Manchin has been dependable on three issues: 1) fossil fuels, 2) The Second Amendment and 3) abortion. Beyond those three issues, he is an old style tax & spend liberal.
RIBO: Republican In Behavior Only
Manchin voted to impeach Trump even though it was obvious Trump had done nothing wrong. So Manchin sided with those on the Left who are trying to destroy our Republic by using the power of the federal government against their political opponents. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.
The only thing keeping Manchin in check is the people he represents, who may not be supportive of the positions he takes. He’s up for electon in 2022, so he has to walk carefully.
Like I mentioned in a previous comment, apart from fossil fuels, guns and abortion, Manchin is a liberal Democrat.
He’s not up for reelection until 2024. Last I heard, he was not going to run again.
Thanks for the correction on the date.
I hope he doesn’t run again. We need someone with a little bit of sense in that position. Anyone who sides with the radical Democrats is a danger to the United States. That’s what I think of Manchin, and people like Romney, among others. They are helping the domestic enemies of the United States.
Btw, Trump had a rally in Ohio the other day that drew over 40,000 people, and he had a rally in Sarasota Florida last night that drew 25,000 people. Right before the rally took place, a thunderstorm passed through the area and drenched the crowds waiting for Trump, and announcers were telling the crowd to go home, and none of them did. They all stayed, soaking wet, to hear Trump, and Trump gave them one hell of a show.
Youtube banned (the dangerous bastards!) the live feed of his event. It’s time to cancel Youtube. You can find it on the Newsmax app or their website, I imagine. Newsmax probably drew 3 million+ viewers for Trumps’ rally. That’s what they drew for the Ohio rally last week. Fox didn’t carry the rally, so Fox lost a lot of viewers during that time. And will do so every time they don’t carry Trump’s rallies. Trump plans on having a lot of rallies between now and election time.
If you didn’t see the rally last night, you should do so. It was Great!
Compare this to the polls that show that almost nobody approves of “climate action” if they think it will cost them more than a few trips to Starbucks a year.
Voters will be sending an even bigger signal when they start getting the bills.
A little more raiding of the us treasury
Middleton posts: “134 signatories would be 61% of House Democrats.”
Adragna wrote: “Nearly 60 percent of the House Democratic caucus..”
Math looks pretty good to me.
““More than 120 members…”
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Last time I checked, 134 > 120
Quote me in context, rather than lying about what I posted.
Is English a second language for you? “Nearly” implies almost reaching, from the low side. For your statement to be true, “approximately” would be the correct word.
I think this is an imposter of Nicolas Tesdorf… Not even close to his posting style.
Imposter status confirmed… This is not WUWT regular Nicolas Tesdorf.
Yup he is an obvious imposter with a proxy server in a nation far off the English speaking world.
Correct.
Of course, my main points were that counting the actual number was a trivial exercise and 60.9% of 50.8% of one house of Congress is as relevant as mammary glands on a bull.
Very true David. Unfortunately, there are too many RINOs that can upset the apple cart, particularly in that other house where just one would be needed to neutralize Joe Man Kenobi’s vote (assuming it’s one of the 3 issues Joe Man votes sanely on)
61% isn’t “nearly 60%”.
Dems have the union logo on all their printed materials including business cards. This is yet another donor block logo effort. It’s a money thing….again….and again….and again.
Progressive Caucus
Problem Solvers Caucus
How do so many disparate ‘groups’ agree on anything?
They do not appear to be members of one party, rather tiny groups with self-interested ideas who all have their own vision for the rest of us (but not them, of course).
Maybe OT but I had to share this song for this independence day that is perfect for how I and I know a lot of others feel concerning current events:
Am I The Only One?
https://youtu.be/xnNJv5yNZjE