Friday, June 05, 2009

Congressional Democrats try to push an ambitious [climate fraud] agenda before recess - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com
Democrats say the public is thirsting for major reform, pointing to polling they say shows voters backing health care reform and legislative action on global warming. As one Democratic aide put it, Obama didn’t win by advocating for “the audacity of baby steps.”

But at least a few Democratic members are unhappy with the pace Nancy Pelosi is setting in the House.

The speaker said earlier this week that she wants all committee work on the climate change bill done by June 19. Asked whether he’d picked that deadline, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said, “Hell no.”
New "Jelly Pump" Rewrites Carbon Cycle | The Resilient Earth
That is the way science works, new discoveries are made every day and what we thought we knew yesterday doesn't look so certain today. Every generation of scientists has its own long held, but erroneous theories to correct: Ptolemy's model of the solar system, fixed continents, any number of theories regarding the nature of matter, all have been accepted dogma and eventually discarded. New research is constantly changing the ideas that buttressed anthropogenic global warming, eroding its foundations like the tide excavates sand around a piling. How much longer before we move on to a more correct view of Earth's climate system? Look around, the change is happening right now.
I wonder if all of these groups are completely pure of heart, completely without any financial or political motivations? - washingtonpost.com
The Center for Public Integrity said its review of Senate disclosure records showed that more than 880 businesses and interest groups have registered to lobby on climate change in the first quarter of 2009 -- up more than 14 percent over the same time last year.

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