WSJ: Senate Climate Dodge: Tom Steyer gives $50 million and all he gets is a lousy all-nighter
…Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”
Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/03/investors-business-daily-dems-climate.html
Democrats, NASA Scientists And Global Warming
3/11/14 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Hysterics: Democrats from the secretary of state to Senate lawmakers can’t let go of their climate change obsession. Meanwhile, a group of NASA scientists and engineers says there’s no danger. To whom do we listen?
We’d say the folks at NASA. It’s unlikely the media will see it that way, though. They have too much invested in that other scientific “consensus” that says man is heating the planet to listen to officials at NASA who disagree with the press-feted, fanatically political James Hansen.
What do get wide coverage, though, are the rants of Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been screeching about climate change for some time now. Not so long ago, he called it “the greatest challenge of our generation.”
In addition to that madness, Kerry is asking the U.S. ambassadors who work under him to make climate change their diplomatic priority.
Not terrorism. Not Russia. Not America’s damaged reputation around the world. Not weapons of mass destruction in the hands of belligerents. Climate change.
“The environment has been one of the central causes of my life,” he told his envoys in what is reported to be his first department-wide policy guidance statement since becoming secretary a year ago.
Rather arrogant, we’d say, for the man to enlist an entire federal department, indeed, an entire nation, to fixate on one of the most important causes in his life.
While Kerry continues to bully his staff and distort foreign policy for a personal interest, Senate Democrats, 28 of them and two independents, held a global warming talkathon Monday night through Tuesday morning. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who is a co-founder of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, says Democrats wanted to use the all-nighter to “wake up Congress.”
The gabfest wasn’t a filibuster. It was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem — and away from the Democrats’ many real problems: the disaster of ObamaCare, the historically weak economy, unacceptably high unemployment and feckless foreign policy.
It was also a disturbing exhibition of silliness. The event was a sophomoric stunt and a profile in hypocrisy. As Anthony Watts wrote in his blog Wattsupwiththat, the senators had “a ‘denier bashing fest’ while” basking “in the warmth provided by …
Summary of the use of ‘denier’ in Senate Dems all-night warmathon
From Stephen Rasey in a comment about the congressional record from the Senate all-nighter:
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This is a first pass summary of the use of “denier” in the March 10-11 Senate Climate Change Transcript.
CR_Page , CR_Speaker _, CR_Text
S1378 __, REID ________, climate change deniers still exist.
S1378 __, REID ________, the deniers.
S1379 __, SCHUMER _____, deniers like to claim there are competing
S1379 __, SCHUMER _____, Climate change deniers need to wake
S1379 __, BOXER _______, The deniers have given in to the
S1381 __, BLUMENTHAL _, deniers, who are as much a part of the
S1381 __, KING ________, I would not call myself a denier, but
S1387 __, BOXER _______, but who I think is a dangerous denier,
S1387 __, BOXER _______, a dangerous denier in the face of 97 percent
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, our climate deniers tend to use. I will
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, This was a prominent climate denier
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, in Antarctica. More and more deniers
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, Some deniers also like to use responsible
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, So deniers cannot in good conscience
S1387 __, SCHATZ ______, deal. Maybe it is even good. As deniers
S1388 __, SCHATZ ______, This category of deniers accepts the reality,
S1390 __, FEINSTEIN __, change deniers, reported to Congress in
S1392 __, WHITEHOUSE _, which the climate denier community
S1392 __, WHITEHOUSE _, That is how much fuss the deniers
S1393 __, BOXER _______, deniers are standing with 3 percent of
S1393 __, BOXER _______, we have proven the point that deniers
S1395 __, FRANKEN _____, deniers have taken this as a sign that
S1400 __, KAINE _______, science deniers and leadership deniers,
S1400 __, KAINE _______, To science deniers, I am happy to say
S1401 __, KAINE _______, It is the skeptics and the deniers who
S1401 __, KAINE _______, variety, climate denier or leadership
S1401 __, KAINE _______, denier, don’t underestimate American
Gallup Poll: Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S. – Majority of Americans (51%) worry ‘only a little’ or ‘not at all’ about global warming – 2014 Environmental concerns rank lowest in Gallup polling history
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx
Excerpt:
Twenty-eight U.S. senators held an all-night “talkathon” Monday to call attention to climate change, an issue that only 24% of Americans say they worry about a great deal. This puts climate change, along with the quality of the environment, near the bottom of a list of 15 issues Americans rated in Gallup’s March 6-9 survey. The economy, federal spending, and healthcare dominate Americans’ worries.
Thirty-one percent of Americans indicate that they worry “a great deal” about the quality of the environment this year, marking the lowest level of worry about the environment more broadly since Gallup began measuring this in 2001. Americans were most concerned about the environment in 2007, when 43% worried a great deal.
Climate change and the quality of the environment rank near the bottom of a list of concerns for Americans, who are instead far more worried about more basic economic issues such as the economy, federal spending, and the affordability of healthcare. Concerns about the environment typically rank low among all Americans, but the current level of worry is even lower than in the past.
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Network News Uncritically Hypes Dem ‘All-Nighter’ on Climate: Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid called global warming action a ‘question of our own survival’
Analysis: Senate Democrats’ anti-scientific hot-air marathon
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/11/harris-the-senates-anti-scientific-hot-air-maratho/?page=all#pagebreak…
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Wash Post’s Dana Milbank: ‘Democrats’ climate-change filibuster is nothing but a lot of hot air’ – ‘This may be the first time in history that a group of senators filibustered themselves’
Still, they figured their antics in the wee hours would display their dedication for all Americans to see — or at least insomniacs who watch
C-SPAN2. It also might impress Democratic donors. As The Post’s Ed O’Keefe reported, Democratic senators discussed plans for the filibuster last month at a fundraiser held by liberal billionaire Thomas Steyer.…