Democrats in control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee set a date for the chamber’s first hearing on global warming in six years.
The hearing is scheduled for Feb. 6 after the coldest weather in decades for many parts of the U.S. is forecast to subside. A “polar vortex” event brought record cold to the Midwest and Great Plains, forcing factories to close, straining energy systems and leaving at least 11 dead.
Meteorologists forecast a rapid thaw in the coming days with temperatures rising 80 degrees in Illinois and other areas. Washington, D.C., is expected to see temperatures in the 50s when the climate hearing is scheduled.
Democrats want to make tackling global warming a central part of their 2019 agenda, and top committee chairs plan a series of hearings on the matter. House energy and commerce Democrats will be the first to take up the climate crusade over 2019.
“Year after year, politicians have ignored this threat and denied the science. We can’t afford to let them stand in the way any longer,” Democratic New York Rep. Paul Tonko, a subcommittee chair who will head the hearing, said in a video statement released Wednesday night.
The hearing would focus on the “cost of inaction on climate pollution” and “how a just transition to a clean energy economy” would help the economy and environment, Tonko said.
“We are committed to taking action,” Tonko said. “We believe the science, we understand the urgency and we are committed to getting results.”
What also remains to be seen is if House Democrats take up calls for a Green New Deal being pushed by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several 2020 hopefuls. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey are set to unveil Green New Deal legislation as soon as next week.
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So did they have to turn up the heat so none of them would freeze the toes off while they were coming up with more idiotic ideas and proposals to force us into thie Paris Accord and paying stupid Carbon Tax
I’d say that the cost of their ineffective solutions is higher than the cost of “inaction” .
People died in the cold. Michigan had to scramble to save natural gas . New York natural gas prices spiked. Why? Where’s the pipelines?
Where was the Green energy in the cold dark night!
In the midsummer heat of Australia, the electrical grid could not provide for everyone. Obviously the vulnerable suffer the most.
Green energy is not there when you need energy to survive.
Why is it that democrats always ignore the consensus among Bigfoot experts? Why do they deny the science behind the existence of Sasquatch?
Consensus, if it existed, has no place in real science. What matters are theories and data that support the theories. Though a consensus is meaningless, it does not exist on the subject of anthropological climate change. The Oregon petition was signed by 38,000+ scientists stating that carbon dioxide has no or very little impact on the climate.
There is no “cost of inaction on climate pollution” because climate pollution does not exist, at least as far as green house gas emissions. Papers making a case that such costs exist have been thoroughly discredited. However, there is a cost to the climate change movement. It is replacing cheap reliable energy with expensive unreliable energy. In the UK people of been dying because they can’t afford to adequately heat their homes due to inflated climate change costs.
The town of Georgetown TX shows the impact of “transition to a clean energy economy” when the average electric household bill went from $219 to $1219 a month.
In the last election the people have clearly showed they don’t want to spend money on the climate change issue. In making it one of their major platforms, the Democrats are making a mistake. Unfortunately historically the Republicans don’t exploit these mistakes.
Greenpeace still uses ship that run and operate on Fossil Fuels even while their using their ships to block oil tankers these lying Eco-Freak Hypotcrites