Democratic leadership has formulated the guidelines for the widely anticipated climate change committee, but have bucked environmental hardliners by giving it no real authority or legislative powers.
As part of a rules package that will govern the House for the next two years, House Democrats unveiled the authority and operations of the new “Select Committee on the Climate Crisis” on Tuesday.
The new committee will be made up of 15 members — nine Democrats and six Republicans. Kathy Castor, a six-term Democratic representative from Florida, has been tapped to serve as the committee’s chairwoman.
The climate change committee will be tasked to “investigate, study, make findings, and develop recommendations on policies, strategies, and innovations to achieve substantial and permanent reductions in pollution,” according to the rules package.
However, the new panel won’t be able to do much else.
The Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will not have subpoena power, nor will it be permitted to vote on bills and send them directly to the House floor for a vote. Members will also not be barred if they accept donations from the fossil fuel industry.
The committee is not even being specifically tasked with writing legislation pertaining to the Green New Deal — a vague set of demands by environmentalists that aim to transition the country to 100 percent renewable electricity.
The committee’s lack of power is a major setback for environmental activists who hoped it would serve as a focal point for their Green New Deal agenda.
Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who skyrocketed to fame after unseating a powerful New York congressman in the 2018 primaries — has been the Green New Deal’s biggest purveyor.
Ocasio-Cortez blasted Democratic leadership Monday for not giving the committee subpoena authority or meeting any of her other “reasonable” demands.
While I applaud the establishment of the Select Committee, without subpoena power or the reasonable requests stated, it will be in an even weaker position than the select climate committee of 10 years ago.
There is still time to strengthen it. For all our sake,I hope that we do.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2018
The Sunrise Movement — an environmentalist organization and major supporter of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal — was even more critical.
“The mandate for Speaker Pelosi’s Select Committee on the Climate Crisis is out and it’s everything we feared,” Sunrise co-founder Varshini Prakash stated Wednesday.
“1) It allows members to accept fossil fuel money; 2) It has no mandate to create a plan on the 12-year timeline mandated by the world’s top scientists; 3) It has no language on economic and racial justice or a just transition.”
Read more at Daily Caller
Just like with all little liberal Hitlers Cassio/Cortez can not allow for anyone getting in their way so they create all sorts of reguations and laws and raise our taxes to pay for it all
Carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth – Oh yes.
But the governments gonna fix everything –
The House Rules Package
And what a package it is!! Same old, same old litany of lies.
INVESTIGATIVE JURISDICTION
The sole authority of the Select Committee shall be to investigate, (naturally occurring fuels), study, make findings, and develop recommendations on policies, strategies, and innovations to achieve substantial and permanent reductions in pollution >and other activities< that contribute to the climate crisis which will honor our responsibility to be good stewards of the planet for future generations. The Select Committee may, at its discretion, hold public hearings in connection with any aspect of its investigative functions.
Not mentioned in the bill… SCIENCE.
Or Petroleum, which is a NATURALLY occurring, yellowish-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth’s surface.
Or Natural gas, which is a NATURALLY occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane.
And yes, a fossil fuel – Coal which is formed NATURALLY if dead plant matter decays into peat and over millions of years the heat and pressure of deep burial converts the peat into coal.
Or that Carbon is the key component of all known life on Earth, representing approximately 45-50% of all dry biomass. Complex molecules are made up of carbon bonded with other elements, especially oxygen and hydrogen and frequently also with nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Carbon is abundant on Earth.
Included in the bill…
“Climate Crisis” – pollution (CO2) and other activities (cow farts etc…)
“Perhaps this fixation derives from ulterior political motives for controlling the global economy. For others, the true believers, perhaps this fixation derives from ignorance.” (see link below)
“Affordable Care Act” – actually mentioned 12 times! BIG LIE! But the governments gonna fix everything
AND the usual divisive left wing victimological rhetoric pandering for purely political purposes.
“Sexual Orientation” – an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generally subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, while asexuality (the lack of sexual attraction to others) is sometimes identified as the fourth category.
“Gender Identity” _ the personal sense of one’s own gender. LIKE… agender – ally – Coming out – androgyny/ous – androsexual – aromantic – asexual – bigender – bicurious – biphobia – bisexual – butch – cisgender – cissexism – cisnormativity – closeted – coming Out – constellation – cross-dresser – demiromantic – demisexual – down low – drag king – drag queen – dyke – fag(got) – feminine-of-center; masculine-of-center – feminine-presenting; masculine-presenting – femme – fluid(ity) – FtM / F2M; MtF / M2F – gay – (“Gay” is a word that’s had many different meanings throughout time. In the 12th century is meant “happy,” in the 17th century it was more commonly used to mean “immoral” (describing a loose and pleasure-seeking person), and by the 19th it meant a female prostitute (and a “gay man” was a guy who had sex with female prostitutes a lot). It wasn’t until the 20th century that it started to mean what it means today. Interesting, right?) – gender binary – gender fluid– gender neutrois – gender non-conforming – gender normative / gender straight – genderqueer – gender variant – gynesexual / gynephilic /“guy-nuh-seks-shu-uhl”/ – heteronormativity – (noun : the assumption, in individuals or in institutions, that everyone is heterosexual (e.g. asking a woman if she has a boyfriend) and that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities. Leads to invisibility and stigmatizing of other sexualities. Heteronormativity also leads us to assume that only masculine men and feminine women are straight. (Interesting, right?)) – hermaphrodite – heteronormativity – heterosexism – heterosexual – homosexual – intersex – lesbian – LGBTQ; GSM; DSG – lipstick lesbian – metrosexual – MSM / WSW – Mx. / “mix” or “schwa” – pansexual – passing – PGPs – polyamory / polyamorous – queer – questioning – QPOC / QTPOC – same gender loving (SGL) – sex assigned at birth (SAAB) – skoliosexual – spiritual attraction???? – stealth – straight – stud – third gender – top surgery – transgender – transition / transitioning – transman; transwoman – transphobia – transsexual – transvestite – two-spirit – ze / zir / “zee”, “zerr” or “zeer”……………..there’s more.
Carbon IS what made life on Earth possible. It is NOT a pollutant.
Earth’s climate has been changing for at least four billion years in cycles large and small. Few in the climate debate understand those changes and their causes. Many are fixated on carbon dioxide (CO2), a minor constituent of the atmosphere, but one absolutely necessary for life as we know it. (In the process of photosynthesis, terrestrial plants, and phytoplankton, kelp, and algal plankton in the oceans use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen.)
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore has written an excellent summary of the history of carbon dioxide on Earth titled, “The Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions On the Survival of Life on Earth.” In this 24-page paper, Moore notes that we came dangerously close to losing plant life on Earth about 18,000 years ago, when CO2 levels approached 150 ppm, below which plant life can’t sustain photosynthesis. Currently, atmospheric CO2 stands at about 400 ppm which is about one-third the level for optimum plant growth.
https://wryheat.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/carbon-dioxide-is-necessary-for-life-on-earth/
The establishment and continued existence of this committee
will be the laughing stock of all intelligent people
and maybe even some of the DC elites who won’t say so because
they’re getting rich from the con game as well
But Occasional Cortisone should keep her shit-ass mouth shut.
She’ll be dealt a very cruel lesson by those
she associates with.
AO-C isn’t happy? Good so far.
I don’t get it.
This new select committee on the supposed “climate crisis” is going to study and make recommendations on pollution? Oh right . . . the idiots still think that the vital trace gas carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Well, this should be entertaining to watch.