Posted on 06/28/2023 4:50:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LANSING, MI – A Michigan House hearing grew heated last week as Republicans questioned established climate science and attacked proposed Democratic clean energy legislation using what some climate experts characterized as fear-based arguments rooted in misinformation.
Rep. David Prestin, a Republican from Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula, called climate change a “theory” and warned that Michigan citizens would go without power and “perishables will spoil” under proposed Democratic bills meant to hasten the transition off fossil fuels for energy and reduce power costs for ratepayers, especially lower-income Michiganders.
Prestin accused Democrats of “using the drumbeat of climate” to mandate investment in renewable energy forms he suggested would underfund the distribution grid.
“Energy generation rooted in best available technology and grid stability is what’s necessary, not fairies and pixie dust which is what these bills try to codify into law,” he said. “It’s dangerous. It will cost lives.”
“It’s rooted in theory, not best available technology,” Prestin continued. “For those that can’t afford backup generators, batteries, home solar, it will make their lives much more expensive and much more uncertain.”
Bill sponsors pushed back.
House Speaker Pro Tem Laurie Pohutsky, D-Livonia, said the ice storms earlier this year were a consequence of climate change and that if nothing is done to combat it, things are going to get worse. Rep. Betsy Coffia, D-Traverse City, said addressing climate change and protecting society’s most vulnerable are moral imperatives.
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“Deny” and you’re wrong
It is a theory, at least in terms of anthropomorphic climate change that’s is of devastating results.
“...questioned established climate science...”
Okaaaaay...
Well, when you won’t engage in reasoned argument, this is all you’re left with.
Take you science and shove it liars.
‘called climate change a “theory”’
Theory, hoax, whatever.
I just looked at the author’s LinkedIn...
Let’s just say she’s well suited for the position of propagandist.
So many loaded words in this article.
Those dang Republicans have again denied the established science view that the Earth is the center of the universe.
The Republicans should agree with the Democrats. Just ask the Democrats what their detailed plan is, costs associated with it, who is going to pay for it and all the risks and mitigation plans.
Then stand back.
Climate change is real, it’s the cause that is controversial. The left, by controlling the discussion, have established the falsehood than if the climate is changing, it’s our fault. It’s a post hoc fallacy. Ask them to explain why the ice ages came and went before we started burning fossil fuels. They can’t.
Political science is not real science.
But government control has increased exponentially.
Which was the real goal.
Michigan, (where I once lived and worked) has become a theocracy. The Church of Global Warming, like the Religion of Peace, requires that apostates be put to death, at least socially and politically, (for now).
First they came for our lightbulbs...
If “climate change caused by human production of CO2” was a true scientific theory, it’s main use would be in a sentence combined with Piltdown Man. Why? Because predictions based on this discredited theory have been shown false. Therefore, the theory is thrown out with the garbage. It is discredited.
What predictions? There are many. Start with the ice free arctic summer. Never happened. Then there are the specific predictions on global temperatures in the future. Those have been proven to be grossly wrong.
Therefore, this theory is false. Trash. Hoax.
All the propaganda in the world does not fix proven wrong.
There is a theory, perhaps it is now a law. The issue with communists is never the issue. Therefore, the issue of human caused CO2 causing increased global temperatures is not the issue. What is the issue? Implementing a totalitarian government and eliminating all personal freedom of the people. Global warming is just a part of the plan to implement totalitarianism.
yes
they are established computer models
that is as real as it gets
oh and the tons of propaganda has helped establish the science as well
This is just another example of how entrenched the communist democrat party is in our media...as they are in education, bureaucracies, etc. throughout our society. They don’t even need to control the legislative and executive branches to control the nation at this point. We need to address this issue in order to defeat them fully.
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