By GOP Lawmakers at UN Embrace Oil, Gas … & Democrats’ War on CO2?
by Alex Newman
Reprinted with permission from TheNewAmerican.com
BAKU, Azerbaijan — The United States will move full-speed ahead on expanding energy including oil and gas, explained Republican lawmakers who arrived at the 29th annual United Nations climate summit in the wake of climate skeptic Donald Trump’s victory. It is a matter of national security, the members of Congress said.
However, the GOP congressmen also appeared to embrace some Democratic climate policies, and even the UN-backed government controls on carbon dioxide, a gas known to scientists as the “gas of life.” The Republicans also offered no resistance to the increasingly discredited hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 represent “pollution” that is causing dangerous “climate change.”
Public Perception
Aside from the vows to expand energy production, the remarks by GOP lawmakers are sharply out of touch with Americans generally, and especially with their own constituents. According to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, most Americans do not even believe the man-made global-warming hypothesis. That is especially true among Republicans, only one-third of whom believe the theory.
Meanwhile, only about one-third of Americans are willing to pay a single additional dollar on their monthly energy bill for “climate,” the survey found. The “carbon capture” and “emissions reductions” policies and technologies embraced by even the Republican members of the congressional delegation (Republicans Troy Balderson [Ohio], Morgan Griffith [Va.], John James [Mich.], Jay Obernolte [Calif.], and August Pfluger [Texas], and Democrats Edward Markey [Mass.] and Sheldon Whitehouse [R.I.]) would cost consumers and taxpayers countless billions, enriching megabanks, Big Oil, and other government cronies at public expense.
The embrace of man-made warming alarmism by GOP lawmakers also goes against recent comments made by President-elect Donald Trump. “One of the most urgent tasks, not only for our movement, but for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax,” Trump argued during a 2022 talk lambasting “green” schemes. His nominee for energy secretary, Chris Wright, has also blasted the dishonest climate fearmongering.
The GOP congressional delegation would not even commit to overturning the Democrats’ highly controversial Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). That scheme, which U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told The New American last year was “inartfully named,” sent tens of billions of tax dollars to states to impose “green energy” programs while building a political constituency for climate alarmism.
This is exactly what Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) predicted last year in response to a question from The New American at COP28 in Dubai about Trump returning to the White House. Thanks to the handouts under the IRA, even Republican districts are now hooked, he said. “We’ll continue to move forward regardless,” concluded Coons, celebrating Democrats’ dishonest scheming.
Asked all 7 US Senators at the UN #COP28 #climate conference how @JoeBiden & the US government could make all these $$$ pledges & promises when polls show Americans don’t believe their warming theory & @realDonaldTrump may be president again soon.
In response, US Sen.… pic.twitter.com/9Gx1IrSUyA— Alex Newman (@ALEXNEWMAN_JOU) December 11, 2023
During his remarks, House Energy Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-Texas), who led the congressional delegation to the UN climate summit, repeatedly touted technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. And even when asked directly, he did not comment on what Trump may do on “climate finance” (wealth redistribution) or the UN Paris Agreement. Read Full Article >
