Fourteen Democrat members of Congress traveled to the United Nations Climate Conference in Madrid. Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the US delegation, which included Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Representative Sean Casten of Illinois.
However, there is little evidence that the conference will have any effect on the climate, but Ms. Pelosi’s delegation will have spent a lot of taxpayer money.
Speaker Pelosi described the delegation and the conference as an effort to “combat the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis.”
More than 25,000 attendees and 1,500 members of the media joined the conference.
After flying halfway around the world on private or commercial jets, Ms. Pelosi and her team discussed with world leaders how best to put restrictions on citizens of the US and other nations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Reduced air travel, forced adoption of electric cars, and elimination of natural gas for heating and cooking were all topics in an effort to “save the planet.”
The official conference name is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP25.
COP25 means that this is the 25th “Conference of the Parties.” These meetings have been held every year for the last quarter-century.
If we all live long enough, we may see the 50th Conference of the Parties. However, there is no evidence that these meetings and the thousands of climate laws enacted around the world over the last 30 years can measurably change global temperatures.
The Pelosi delegation trip was expensive, probably costing millions of dollars in travel, lodging, food, and security. Yet this was just the tip of the iceberg.
The 2015 Paris Climate Accords called for the United States to transfer billions of taxpayer dollars each year to “developing” nations, including China and India, payments which the Democrat delegation favors.
The Trump Administration ended these payments with US withdrawal from the Paris Accords.
All leading Democrat candidates for president propose massive expenditures to “solve the climate crisis.” [These candidates also committed to staying in the Paris Climate Accord and paying climate reparations for ‘bad’ weather. Obama sent them $1 billion shortly before Trump took office. –CCD Editor]
Senator Bernie Sanders touts the most extravagant spend, proposing a total of $16 trillion over 10 years, or more than $50,000 for each man, woman, and child in the US.
Representative Sean Casten of Illinois calls for “massive, coordinated, international action” to “stabilize” the climate.
Earth’s climate has been changing for all of history, including ice ages, warm periods, and cold periods. There is no evidence that driving electric cars, building wind turbines, or changing light bulbs can “stabilize” the climate.
The Madrid delegation should get to work on real economic, jobs, trade, and healthcare issues that affect Americans.
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Always leave it to the Democrats to wine and dine then stick John Q.Public with the bill these democrats look upon us to be their own ATM Machine
The only existential threat of our time is you Nancy Piglozi, your fascist/democrat party and bunch of mindless useful idiots who are keeping the vote for the people like you.
I’m wondering how Pelosi’s reign ends. Election defeat and the Squad rips her throat out? Certainly not voluntary retirement. It seems like she’s in a lifelong log rolling contest. I think that this climate change GND hooey is beneath her. Why doesn’t she call it what it is? Go out with some dignity, Nancy.
I just watched her on the box. In one sentence she said she didn’t care what the Republicans say and then in the very next she said she wanted a fair trial. HYPOCRISY! Any fair trial has to listen to both sides of a dispute. Refusing to hear what the Republicans have to say clearly tells us that she doesn’t even know what she is saying from one sentence to another.
These rotten democrats reject the U.S. Constitution as it was written some claim it allows someone to walk naked down Main Street or for illegal aliens to open up a village in your wheat field’s Liberal Democrats belong in prison like Obama and both the Clinton’s