The Washington Times today
delivers all the wailing from the Left over House Republicans’
decision to eliminate the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming, which Democrat leaders launched in
2007 as a tool that was toothless to advance legislation, but
worked wonders to promote climate environoia. The GOP estimates the
shutdown will save taxpayers $2 million per year, and “deny
Democrats a key bully pulpit for advancing their environmental
agenda.”
From the article of Lamentations:
“Disbanding the select committee does not diminish the urgent
need to act on these very critical issues,” (House Speaker Nancy)
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said…..
“We’re one of the only countries of the world where leading
government officials deny settled science,” said Daniel J. Weiss, a
climate specialist with the Center for American Progress Action
Fund. “There couldn’t be a more important time to have a select
committee on energy independence and global warming.”
Panel supporters say they worry that the dozens of new
“tea-party”-supported conservatives in the House will further push
the House away from addressing energy and climate issues.
“Unfortunately, many of the new members elected to the House
have expressed opinions ranging from skepticism to outright denial
about the facts regarding climate change,” Dan Lashof, director of
the climate center at the National Resources Defense Council, said
in an interview last week with CBS News. “As more senior members
jockey for positions to be committee chairmen, they’re suggesting a
highly obstructionist agenda.”
We can only hope. Meanwhile, here’s the latest in “settled
science”
reported by The Daily Mail in London:
A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN
Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office
issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010,
it announced, ‘is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record’ - a
deeply worrying 0.58C above the 1961-1990 average.
World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an
ever-rising trend: ‘Our experimental decadal forecast confirms
previous indications that about half the years 2010-2019 will be
warmer than the warmest year observed so far - 1998….’
Last week, halfway through yet another giant, 15,000-delegate UN
climate jamboree, being held this time in the tropical splendour of
Cancun in Mexico, the Met Office was at it again. Globally, it
insisted, 2010 was still on course to be the warmest or second
warmest year since current records began.
But buried amid the details of those two Met Office statements
12 months apart lies a remarkable climbdown that has huge
implications - not just for the Met Office, but for debate over
climate change as a whole. Read carefully with other official
data, they conceal a truth that for some, to paraphrase former US
Vice President Al Gore, is really inconvenient: for the past 15
years, global warming has stopped.
More details in the Mail. Maybe George Soros can
finance new fact-finding missions for Mr. Weiss and Mr. Lashof,
those denial-ridden climate experts cited above.
