Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted on 04/24/2009 5:23:23 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
Washington DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”
According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The 'celebrity' witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats 'celebrity' with an unnamed 'celebrity' of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.
“The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.
“Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,'” Monckton explained. Monckton has previously testified before the House Committee in March. (See: Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing...US Congress told climate change is not real ) Monckton has also publicly challenged Gore to a debate. (See: Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007 )
A call to the Democratic office of the House Energy and Commerce Committee seeking comment was not immediately returned Thursday night.
What, are Congressional hearings suddenly supposed to be about facts and evidence and logic?
Gore is like a turd that won’t flush
If you missed it from Christmas season, here is ALGORE’S GLOBAL WARMING WONDERLAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMoNHY1dLo
Or you could have a Chicago street organizer reading a teleprompter and (some) people would think it's wonderful!
Or Republicans could approach the "questioning" as democrats to. They should preface their questions with information quoting from climate change skeptics. Their only questons to Gore (in the final 10 seconds) should be, "Your personal profit from your agenda of climate alarm is over $100 million. When will you have enough money?"
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Bump!
Truth? You can’t handle the truth!
>>> Congress doesn’t need facts when Nobel Prize winner Al Gore <<<<
Wasn’t Lord M. was a co-award winner with big al?
The stage is being set for cap and trade.
It does, it causes millions of plants to be grown every year. But it's done for profit so those must be evil non-CO2-sucking plants just like the trees in the managed paper mill tree farms.
Back to the time before Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit (if you believe Samuel Clemens).
This whole climate fiasco is going to unravel over the next few years. I think we saw a preface to the coming undoing of the radical environmental movement over this during the high gas prices of last year and which won probably temporarily to the expiration of the offshore drilling ban. I think that if the economy continues to struggle we are going to see increasing anger and skepticism towards the Climate pirates like Gore. I also believe we are going to see some very cold winters in the coming years. I wouldn’t be tying my political future to Global Warming and those that do will find it increasingly unpopular.
Sen. Inhofe of OKL. is the only GOPer who has the guts to take on the faux science community which believes this GW baloney and climate changes that could be helped with wave and wind power! YIPE.
BTTT
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