Iowa: [Lack of global warming hits pheasants hard, but] numbers expected to rebound from record low

Bogenschutz says the winter months were key in the low harvest last year as the record snowfall killed off birds before they got to the spring.

CQ Politics | Moment of Truth Nears in House on Global Warming [Hoax] Bill

Despite intense negotiations by the measure’s architects to woo rural and coal states with concessions on issues important to them, the kind of opposition the bill still faces was illustrated by Rep. Earl Pomeroy , D-N.D., a member of the Agriculture Committee as well as the fiscally-conservation Blue Dog coalition.

Pomeroy, whose state has both rural and coal interests, said it could face a double whammy from legislation that puts a price on fossil fuel emissions.

“I will vote no,” Pomeroy said Wednesday evening. “My response is to vote the interests of North Dakota. We’re about the fourth most energy-consumptive state in the country.”
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Pomeroy said he doubted whether the other Agriculture committee members would also go along as easily as expected.

Newsmax.com - Congress Buying Into Global Warming Fiction

Congress is about to embrace a scientific hoax.

The House will vote Friday on a bill based on a scientific impossibility that will impose a huge tax burden on an already staggering economy, and in the words of President Barack Obama, send the cost of everybody's electricity skyrocketing.