On Tuesday, before the winds had even died down in Oklahoma -- the winds started to roar in the Capital Building of Congress!!!
"California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer blamed the tornado that
devastated Oklahoma on global warming during a Senate floor speech
Tuesday, using the opportunity to push her own plan to tax carbon
dioxide emissions.
“This is climate change,” Boxer said. “This is climate change. We
were warned about extreme weather: Not just hot weather, but extreme
weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago — it’s
been a while — the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was
extreme weather.”
“Carbon could cost us the planet,” Boxer added, plugging her own
carbon tax bill, co-sponsored by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “The least
we could do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean
energy.”
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Boxer is not the only Democrat to blame the tornado on global warming, as Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon White House spent 15 minutes on the Senate floor ranting against Republicans for denying man-made global warming.
Boxer and Sanders introduced a carbon tax shortly after President
Barack Obama threatened to use his executive authority to address global
warming if Congress failed to act. Their bill would put a gradually
rising fee on carbon dioxide emissions to fund green-energy projects
such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass.
Another group of House and Senate Democrats have also introduced
draft legislation that would also slap carbon emissions with a gradually
rising fee to reduce the use of carbon-heavy energy sources, like coal.
But then the unhappy facts hit us in the face -- reports recently came out from major sources that there has been NO increase in global temperature in 15 years... hmmm - that would be back in 1998, years before AlGorebot was blaming Katrina, weather problems and his divorce on global warming..
Going back a little further -- in 1975, Newsweek, that stalwart of liberal eco-reporting stated flat out"
An often cited 1975 magazine article
by long-time Newsweek science editor Peter Gwynne warned of tornadoes
as a consequence of “global cooling,” along with other residual effects,
including food shortages.
“There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun
to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic
decline in food production — with serious political implications for
just about every nation on Earth,” Gwynne wrote. “The drop in food
output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now.”
There was even a specific passage blaming the “global cooling” phenomenon for a 1974 tornado outbreak.
“Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever
recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a
billion dollars’ worth of damage in thirteen states,” Gwynne wrote."
So, you picks yer demagogue and waves his or her flag..... warming == cooling, but let's call the whole thing off for a few weeks and let the victims be properly honored and the survivors have time to mourn and recover....
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