Debbie: Is the below "green" legislation just more propaganda?
If you have not done so, I suggest reading "CO2:
The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time" by Zbigniew Jaworowski,
M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.. Then decide if global warming and accompanying issues
are deserving of our attention.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/zjmar07.pdf.
Excerpts are located after the list of bill proposals.
All emphasis in summaries have been added.
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H.CON.RES.2 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
should incorporate consideration of global warming
and sea-level rise into the comprehensive
conservation plans for coastal national wildlife refuges, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.RES.11 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
the United States, in collaboration with other
international allies, should establish
an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of
urgency that was incorporated in the "Man on the Moon" project address the
inevitable challenges of "Peak Oil".
Sponsor: Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.RES.29 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
any comprehensive plan to reform our national
energy policy must promote the expanded use of
renewable and alternative energy
sources; increase our domestic refining capacity;
promote conservation and increased
energy efficiency; expand
research and development, including
domestic exploration; and, enhance
consumer education.
Sponsor: Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.232 : To provide for the creation of a
Federal greenhouse gas registry, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.330 : To establish grant programs to encourage energy-efficient
economic development and green job training and
creation, and to establish the Metro
Area Green Institute to produce and disseminate
best practice information to economic and workforce development
initiatives undertaken by
metropolitan communities nationally.
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.391 : To amend the Clean Air Act
to provide that greenhouse gases are not
subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (9)
H.R.585 : To direct the President
to enter into an arrangement with the National
Academy of Sciences to evaluate certain Federal rules and
regulations for potentially harmful impacts on
public health, air quality, water quality, plant and animal wildlife, global
climate, or the environment; and to direct Federal departments
and agencies to create plans to reverse those impacts that are determined to
be harmful by the National Academy of Sciences.
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (5)
H.R.609 : To permit California and other States to effectively
control greenhouse gas emissions from
motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] (introduced 1/16/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.137 : A bill to create jobs and reduce the dependence of the United
States on foreign and unsustainable energy sources by promoting the
production of green energy, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.223 : A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of
2002 to further the adoption of technologies developed by the Department of
Agriculture, to encourage small business
partnerships in the development of
energy through biorefineries, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.224 : A bill to promote economic recovery through
green jobs and
infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.247 : A bill to accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and
provide incentives to registered owners of high fuel consumption automobiles
to replace such automobiles with fuel efficient
automobiles or public
transportation.
Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] (introduced 1/14/09)
Cosponsors (3)
S.268 : A bill to provide funding for a
Green Job Corps program, YouthBuild Build Green Grants, and
Green-Collar Youth Opportunity Grants, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Murray, Patty [WA] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.306 : A bill to promote biogas
production, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Nelson, E. Benjamin [NE] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors (6)
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CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time
Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
EIR Science, March 16, 2007
http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/zjmar07.pdf
Excerpt pg1 (emphasis added):
On Feb. 2, 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
again uttered its mantra of catastrophe about man-made global warming.
After weeks of noisy propaganda, a 21-page ³Summary for Policymakers² of
the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 2007, was presented in grandiose
style in Paris to a crowd of politicians and media, accompanied by a
blackout of the Eiffel Tower to show that electric energy is bad. The
event induced a tsunami of hysteria that ran around the world. This was
probably the main aim of this clearly political paper,
prepared by governmental and United Nations
bureaucrats, and published more than three
months before the IPCC¹s 1,600-page scientific report,
which is to be released in May. In the words of the IPCC, this
delay is needed for adjustment of the main
text, so that ³Changes . . . [could be] made to ensure consistency
with the ŒSummary for Policymakers.¹
² Not a single word in these 1,600 pages is to be in conflict
with what politicians said beforehand in the summary!
This is a strange and unusual method of operation for a scientific
report, and even stranger is the frankness of the IPCC¹s words about
the delay, disclosing its lack of scientific integrity and independence.
It is exactly the same modus operandi demonstrated
in the three former IPCC reports of 1990, 1995, and 2001:
First the politics, then the science.
Excerpt pgs.39-40 (emphasis added):
The concern at the top about "climate change" is not genuine, and
there are hidden motives behind the global warming hysteria. Although
there is not the space in this paper to discuss these motives fully,
they may be illustrated by the following citations (for full references,
see Jaworowski 1999).
-- Maurice Strong, who dropped out of school at age 14, established an
esoteric global headquarters for the New Age movement in San Luis
Valley, Colorado, and helped produce the 1987 Brundtland Report, which
ignited today¹s Green movement. He later become senior advisor to Kofi
Annan, UN Secretary-General, and chaired
the gigantic (40,000 participants) ³UN Conference
on Environment and Development² in Rio de
Janeiro in 1992. Strong, who
responsible for putting together the Kyoto
Protocol with thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats, and
politicians, stated: ³We may get to the point
where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial
civilization to collapse.²
Strong elaborated on the idea of sustainable development, which, he
said, can be implemented by deliberate "quest
of poverty. . . reduced resource consumption . . . and set levels of
mortality control."
-- Timothy Wirth, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global
Issues, seconded Strong¹s statement: "We
have got to ride the global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and
environmental policy."
-- Richard Benedick, a deputy assistant secretary of state who
headed policy divisions of the U.S. State Department, stated:
"A global warming treaty must implemented
even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced]
greenhouse effect."