Global Warming Alarmists Suffer Crushing Political Defeats
Global warming alarmists last week suffered perhaps their
worst political defeats since the Democrat-controlled U.S. House and U.S.
Senate refused to pass the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill in 2009. Democratic
Senators up for reelection this fall declined to participate in a high-profile
filibuster supporting a carbon tax, and then Alex Sink suffered an upset in a
bellwether congressional election after Sink's supporters made her opponent’s
global warming skepticism a central issue in the race.
Nearly half the Democrats in the U.S. Senate declined to
participate in the Senate Democratic Climate Action Task Force’s March 10
evening filibuster supporting a carbon tax. Democrats control the Senate and
have more than enough votes to pass a carbon tax if they had party unity on the
issue. Not only did nearly half the Senate’s Democrats decline to participate,
but moderate Democrats and Democrats from political swing states were almost
entirely absent from the filibuster. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Mark Begich (D-AK),
Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Kay Hagan (D-NC), all of whom face tough election
contests in November, were filibuster no-shows. The carbon tax filibuster did
little other than underscore how few politicians outside the most liberal wing
of the Democratic Party are foolish enough to spend their political capital on
a mythical global warming crisis and costly, futile programs to address it. |
| Zack Hill, by John Deering and John Newcombe |
The very next day, voters in Florida’s U.S. House
District 13 elected underdog and global warming skeptic David Jolly to
Congress. Political pundits and polls made Sink the favorite to win the special
election in a congressional district that twice voted for Barack Obama and
twice voted for Sink in statewide elections. However, global warming became a
central factor during the final few weeks before the election and Sink suffered
an embarrassing upset.
The Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters
saturated the television airwaves with a campaign ad pointing out Sink claims
global warming is a serious problem and Jolly is a global warming skeptic. The
ad played upon District 13's location along the Gulf of Mexico by claiming
global warming is causing more hurricanes and sea-level rise. The ad began
airing a few weeks before the election as polls showed Sink with a fairly
comfortable lead of about five points. After the voters watched the ad over and
over again during the campaign’s final days, they voted for Jolly.
IN THIS ISSUE
Weather Channel co-founder airs landmark climate video
Polar bear population grows in Davis Strait Gallup poll shows climate
change is next-to lowest worry - Noonan: “What is our foreign policy?
Disliking global warming?” Warmists
claim lowering income will make people happier
WEATHER CHANNEL CO-FOUNDER AIRS LANDMARK CLIMATE VIDEO
Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman aired a 36-minute
video explaining why humans are not causing a global warming crisis. With the
support of television station KUSI in San Diego, Coleman observed how he would
be fully supportive of saving the planet he loves if human carbon dioxide
emissions were producing serious harm. Coleman documents how global warming
assertions are myths contradicted by sound science.
POLAR BEAR POPULATION GROWS IN DAVIS STRAIT
The polar bear population of Davis Strait, between
northeast Canada and Greenland, is growing. Polar bear scientists upgraded the
population from “vulnerable” to “stable” in light of the growing population and
growing polar bear habitat.
SOURCE: Polar Bear Science
GALLUP POLLS SHOWS CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEXT-TO-LOWEST WORRY
Americans worry less about climate change than all but
one of 15 issues presented as part of a Gallup poll. Only 24 percent of
Americans worry about climate change “a great deal,” putting the issue behind the economy, federal
spending and the budget deficit, affordable health care, unemployment, the size
and power of government, the Social Security system, hunger and homelessness,
crime, future terrorist attacks, affordable energy, drug use, illegal
immigration, and general environmental issues. Only race relations ranked as a
lower concern.
NOONAN: “WHAT IS OUR FOREIGN POLICY? DISLIKING GLOBAL
WARMING?”
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan
published an article pointing out that American foreign policy's
preoccupation with global warming rather than military aggression emboldens
Vladimir Putin to invade neighboring nations. “What is our foreign policy?
Disliking global warming?” Noonan
asks.
WARMISTS CLAIM LOWERING INCOME WILL MAKE PEOPLE HAPPIER
Global warming alarmists at Spain's Universitat Autonoma
de Barcelona published a paper claiming a much-feared result of government
restrictions to fight global warming higher energy prices resulting in lower
real income is actually a good thing. The paper claims people are happier when
they are poorer. Lead author Filka Sekulova claimed, “The reduction in salaries
in the two years before the survey, from 1,373 to 1,310 euros monthly in
average, did not represent a reduction in the level of happiness. Even in more
recent periods, reductions in salary periodically presented a positive relation
with a subjective wellbeing.”
SOURCE: Science Codex
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