Posted on 09/25/2014 1:58:05 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said it was unfortunate that Republicans continue to block legislation that aims to address the effects of climate change.
“This is a crisis and we’ve got address it,” Sanders said Tuesday. “The bad news is that Republicans in Congress, many of whom don’t even believe the scientific consensus that global warming is a growing threat to our planet, continue to block legislation to address the planetary crisis.”
Sanders’ comments were prompted by President Obama’s speech on climate change at the United Nations. Obama said this is the generation with the power to prevent a global climate crisis.
“I appreciate President Obama’s call for the United States to be a leader on climate change,” Sanders said. “The president can and should do more, but the actions he announced today — like new agreements to reduce methane pollution — are important steps toward tackling the planetary crisis of global warming.”
Republicans have blocked legislation introduced by Sanders that would tax carbon and methane emissions. He said his bill would then use the revenue generated by the tax to lower consumers’ bills for cleaner energy sources.
Some Republicans, such as Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), oppose a carbon tax because they believe climate change is a “hoax” and that forcing new, clean energy sources on the U.S. market would increase prices.
Where’s this new crisis? Is it related to the election they are about to get trounced in six weeks from now? Maybe that’s the crisis and they are throwing s__t against the wall to see if they can save their power.
What’s with the sudden push by the climate change chicken littles?
If this unemployable lowlife can function as a congressman, any piece of protoplasm can.
The problem with the Global Cooling and Global Warming scams is that eventually even the most low information rubes had to realize that all of the predictions ever made were wrong.
The world is getting colder. In 20 years we are going to have another ice age. Only it didn’t happen.
The world is getting warmer. In 20 years the polar ice caps will melt and the seas will rise. Only it didn’t happen.
That is why Global Climate Change™ is so much better. Global Climate Change™ is the scam that can never be proven wrong.
Is it warmer than usual today? It is caused by Global Climate Change.™
Is it colder than usual today? It is caused by Global Climate Change.™
Is it wetter than usual today? It is caused by Global Climate Change.™
Is it dryer than usual today? It is caused by Global Climate Change.™
Is it windier, less windy, cloudier, less cloudy? It doesn’t matter! There will always be weather. Now, whenever there is bad weather, no matter what the weather happens to be, it is caused by Global Climate Change.™
Also, notice how the environmental whackos on the left rarely talk about real water and air pollution anymore and instead focus entirely on CO2?
The leftists have always called for more socialist/marxist government control as the cure for pollution (and everything else). Pollution, don’t you see, is caused by capitalism.
Then the iron curtain fell and it became irrefutable that the worst polluters in the history of the world were the former communist countries, most of which had become large toxic waste dumps. People generally don’t pollute property that they own. People have no such restraint about polluting property that belongs to someone else. Pollution, the world could see, is caused by socialism.
So now the entire focus is CO2, because the United States, having the world’s largest economy, naturally produces the most CO2 per capita. Never mind that CO2 is a trace gas that is necessary for the survival of life on Earth.
This time socialism will work!
Big annual conferences happening and politicians and celebrities are grandstanding.
Don’t worry all of its hot air will blow over by next week and then it will be on to the next topic such as Hillary and her Strong Woman effect on ISIS or some such rot.
I believe the PRC is the largest producer now.
They have also told the UN/US to go jump in a lake about AGW.
How to make a Socialist idiot cry.
Poor baby...
It’s past time to blast the climate liars.
No Global Warming for 17 years now.
Mission Accomplished!
Blast away, but the facts are in, and they don’t lie. There is a consensus among intelligent people that the facts debate is over. The Earth hasn’t been warming for almost 20 years. The ice build up at both the north and south poles is at record levels, and it is thickening.
“This is a crisis and we’ve got address it,” Sanders said Tuesday.
No it is not a crisis. Nothing that you as politicians do will have any positive effect anyhow........
Vermont is proud of its sap.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
Hysteria and Marxism
I have a suggestion for Corny Sanders that will help the climate: stop breathing.
Bernie is dumber than a rock and his brain has been frozen since birth.
I hate to tell you, but he is a senator.
The annual UN Climate Change Dog and Pony Show, in search of a 5 trillion dollar wealth transfer from us to the third world.
“This is a crisis NONSENSE and we’ve got WE'RE MORONS IF WE address it,” Sanders said Tuesday. “The bad news is that Republicans in Congress, many of whom don’t even believe the scientific NON-SCIENTIFIC SOCIALIST "consensus" that global warming is a growing threat to our planet, continue to block legislation to address the planetary GINNED UP PHONY crisis.”
THERE. FIXED IT.
Bernie Sanders may as well drop atomic bombs on the US, since he plans to destroy our freedoms and our economy with the Climate Change/Disruptification Hoax
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