Posted on 09/03/2019 5:27:34 PM PDT by Libloather
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The Washington establishment seems convinced that as a generic long-term issue requiring politicians to do something, climate change makes Republicans look out of the mainstream, but as a demand for massive upheaval on a tight planetary timeline, the Green New Deal makes Democrats look just as far out of the mainstream.
And it’s exposing real tensions inside the Democratic Party—between center and left, congressional leaders and insurgents, labor groups and green groups, and even among various factions inside the Green New Deal movement.
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“Denying the science is not a sustainable position, and more Republicans need to face reality on this issue,” says Rep. Garrett Graves of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the new House committee investigating climate change. “But there’s a civil war happening on the Democratic side, too. If the Green New Deal can’t get a single vote in the U.S. Senate, they obviously haven’t figured this out, either.”
In fact, six months after the Green New Deal resolution was unveiled, with far-reaching climate goals but few specific climate policies, its supporters have yet to introduce substantive legislation for achieving those goals. Meanwhile, House Democrats skeptical of the Green New Deal have introduced two alternative green blueprints, both calling for net-zero emissions by 2050, but those are also primarily plans to have a plan, not actual plans. So far, the political sweet spot seems to be to announce a climate-friendly destination without detailing exactly how to get there.
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When has climate not changed?
Most of the Congress Critters shouldn’t worry about Global Warming they’re so old
” ‘es makin’ it up as ‘e goes along”
Prior to America’s existence, the climate was always pleasant and predictable.
Second, these clowns should be lecturing and protesting in China and India.
If The Stupid Party (GOP) had half an ounce of common sense, the GOP would be raising these points...facts.
“Denying the science is not a sustainable position...”
Something Democrats should worry about.
They’ve cried wolf - “12 years til the end of the world” - for decades.
U.N. predicts disaster (by 2000) if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
And we had both an iceball Earth phase and deep freezes during the ice ages. We’re in a warm phase between ice ages now.
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