Russ Steele
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality writing at ICECAP has some thoughts on the using climate change regulations like AB32 to grab power.
Now we face another monumental federal power grab, this time of the hydrocarbon energy that powers 85% of the American economy. The looming seizure of our money, jobs and liberties is based on shoddily manufactured “evidence,” fraudulent data and science, good-old-boy peer reviews, and false or misleading reports and testimony that would earn any citizen or company exec major fines and jail time.
When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, their first order of business should be investigating the “manmade climate disaster” industry. They should subpoena federal employees and grant recipients, question them under oath regarding their funding and activities, and hold robust, public, expert debates on the science, economics, costs and supposed benefits of cap-tax-and-trade, carbon dioxide “endangerment,” ozone, and other punitive government policies that are strangling our nation’s energy and economic future.
They need to ensure that basic rules of honesty, transparency and accountability are finally applied as forcefully to regulators and taxpayer-funded scientists and activists, as to the rest of us.
If the Republican do as Driessen suggests, the results could have long term impact on AB32, especially if California’s learn that this job busting regulation was based on scientific fraud.
California’s AB32 is based on the IPCC Reports and reports by rent seeking professors using grant fund from state agencies. We now know that IPCC predicted environmental disasters enumerated in AB32 “turned out to be based on environmentalist press releases, casual email comments, anecdotal stories, student theses, studies that had absolutely nothing to do with climate change, and almost anything except honest peer-reviewed science.”
Stay Tuned, the Republican’s are forecast to gain 60+ seats (39 needed for control) in the House of Representatives. Party leaders have expressed a desire to investigate climate change grant funding and the resulting questionable scientific findings. EPA funding could be on the table.
