Climate skeptic in line to take over House Science Committee - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

The likely next chairman of the House Science Committee says “reasonable people have serious questions” about the science connecting manmade greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) on Wednesday vowed to investigate the Obama administration’s climate policies if he becomes chairman.
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“I’ve had people tell me if we had all the money in the world, put it in Texas Stadium, people couldn’t change nature’s future one iota,” Hall told POLITICO outside the hearing. Next year, he pledged to have witnesses “testify under oath what the facts are and not to throw away money on something that has real question whether or not it’s going to do what they say.”

Tech will solve the climate crisis faster than laws | Climate Next | Grist

Blunt-force government spending and mandates won't spur energy innovation, which remains a massive intellectual and policy challenge. Understandably, people across the political spectrum will be uncomfortable with the unpredictability and serendipity such a strategy entails.

'Green stealth tax' carbon reduction scheme delayed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The government today announced it would delay the implementation of a scheme to encourage businesses and organisations to save energy, after controversially changing the programme last month into what critics described as a "green stealth tax".

News Tribune - News - Local - Climate change critic attracts listeners at Tea Party event

Steve Goreham, author of “Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century’s Hottest Topic,” said the earth is warming but scientists, nations and universities are wrong thinking humans are causing it.
About 75 people came to hear the electrical engineer and businessman from New Lenox, executive director of Climate Science Coalition of America, claim that there is no data supporting the claim that manmade gases, namely carbon dioxide, are causing global warming.