How Weird Is This? Repeal Clean Air and Water Laws Because We Owe it to Our Children

June 25, 2011 Leave a comment

More on the current GOP orthodoxy about scrapping the EPA:

Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, a clip of whom was featured yesterday, is now following House Science Committee member Dana Rohrabacher’s lead in adopting a very strange philosophical position: First, acknowledge that we have an obligation to future generations. Solid reasoning and good news so far. But, then, get this: It turns out the obligation we have to our children is to repeal clean air and clean water legislation.

Reading Joe Romm’s excellent post last week reminded me of the same twisted reasoning in a speech to congress by Rohrabacher. Recall that he is one of the senior members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs oversight committee.

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Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to Dana Rohrabacher

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Filed under Dana Rohrabacher (CA)

Senator Jim Inhofe Expressing Current GOP Orthodoxy: The Science is Just Not There. And Even If It Were…

June 20, 2011 Leave a comment

Unlike almost all climatologists, Sen. Inhofe just does not believe there is an overwhelming consensus among scientists about climate change.  And, says Inhofe, even if there were overwhelming scientific evidence of a long-term global catastrophe, it would be a distraction from what really matters: short term local economics.

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Special Interests? View Oil and Gas $ to Jim Inhofe

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The Cold Winter in Oklahoma: A British Parody Apropos of Sen. Inhofe’s Confusion About Weather and Climate

 

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For a more serious piece by David Jenkins on David Frum’s blog about why conservatives should reject the wave of GOP science denial, click here.

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Filed under Climate Science, Jim Inhofe (OK)

Another Piece of Current GOP Orthodoxy: Scrap the EPA

June 20, 2011 1 Comment

Note the bobbing heads of other presidential candidates at the GOP “debate” as Rep. Michelle Bachmann joins the chorus of congressmen hoping to de-fund and de-fang (heck, to eliminate) the Environmental Protection Agency.

 

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Much more on the assault on the EPA in further posts. Newt Gingrich (Gingrich on EPA) and Rep. Barletta (Barletta on EPA) are merely echoing what has been going on in congressional committees all year.  Interesting how tone deaf this major congressional initiative is with the voices of most Americans (Americans on EPA).

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Filed under EPA, Political Candidates

Inhofe: Fracking Has NEVER Contaminated Ground Water. Ever. Not Once.

June 20, 2011 Leave a comment

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Click here to see how wrong he is about hydraulic fracturing.

Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to Jim Inhofe

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Filed under Fracking

Rep. “Smokey Joe” Barton Brags About Baffling Nobel Laureate Chu With Simple Question About Where Oil Comes From

June 20, 2011 Leave a comment

Representative Joe Barton’s office announced  that they had stumped the Nobel Prize winning Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple query about the science of energy: “How did all that oil and gas get to Alaska and under the Arctic Ocean?”
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“I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question – Where does oil come from?” he hurriedly typed out on his TwitterBerry last night (or maybe it was one of his staff?). Barton was referring to his role as the highest-ranking Republican on the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the fact that he put the final question to Steven Chu, the new US secretary of energy, during his appearance before the committee yesterday.

“Smokey” Joe Barton – who some bloggers have been keen to point out has been the recipient of $1,330,160 in “oil money” during his career – is evidently very pleased with himself as he believes that his killer question “baffled” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at Berkeley. Judge for yourself by watching the video below:

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Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to Joe Barton

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Filed under Joe Barton (TX), Republicans

Welcome!

June 18, 2011 1 Comment

SayWhat? brings to you the legislators and congressional committees shaping our national energy and climate policies. Who are our representatives representing?  What do they believe?  We’ll also follow the positions of candidates running for office.

Issues we will be following include…(more…)

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Take That, Ambushers: Inhofe Proud of His Performance in House Hallway

March 20, 2011 Leave a comment

Sen. Inhofe proudly posted this video to show how his views about “the science not being there” solidly refuted the concerns reflected by a “global warming alarmist attempting to ambush him.”

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Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to Jim Inhofe

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Filed under Jim Inhofe (OK)

Fear Factor: Influential Congressional Science Committee Member’s Conspiracy Theory

March 19, 2011 Leave a comment

The House Science and Technology Committee has recently been renamed the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. A senior member, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, has repeatedly claimed that climate science is a “total fraud” perpetrated by radical environmentalists and world-government proponents.

 

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Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to Dana Rohrabacher

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Filed under Dana Rohrabacher (CA)

What Me Worry? No Fear Here. God Has It Covered

March 19, 2011 Leave a comment

Influential Rep. John Shimkus told the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in 2009 that he is not worried about global warming because Chapter 8, Verse 22 of the Book of Genesis says that “As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.” There was a Biblical promise that the earth would not be destroyed again after the flood.  Shimkus added, for emphasis, “‘I believe that is the infallible word of God, and that’s the way it is going to be for his creation.” So lighten up climate scientists — we’ll be fine.

One of my favorite features of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce website is the regularly posted inspirational Scripture Tweets from Rep. Shimkus.

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Special Interests? Oil and Gas $ to John Shimkus

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Filed under Climate Science, John Shimkus (IL)

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