Senate Environment Oversight Committee Lies Fallow
Ocean acidification is already corroding our marine environment. Projected sea level increases are revised upwards. Rocket fuel is found in baby formula. The Department of the Interior is pushing expanded offshore drilling for petroleum and the development of new coal burning powered plants. The Obama Administration is being sued for failing to follow the law requiring decisions about endangered species.
What is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, chair of the the Oversight Subcommittee within the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee doing to deal with these problems?
Not much. There are few signs of activity on the environmental oversight committee. New senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been added to the committee, but it doesn’t seem that she has actually contributed to the committee’s operations. There haven’t been any hearings in the subcommittee yet this year.
Senator Whitehouse hasn’t introduced any significant environmental legislation in this session of Congress. In fact, the only environmental legislation he has introduced was an amendment to another senator’s legislation, and that amendment was ruled out of order.
So, instead of introducing needed environmental legislation, Senator Whitehouse has introduced bills that deal with other matters, themselves often of little consequence. Whitehouse got legislation to designate “School Social Work Week” passed, for instance. Do you know anybody who has benefitted from School Social Work Week?
If Sheldon Whitehouse isn’t going to make use of his position as chair of the Oversight Subcommittee within the House Environment and Public Works Committee, perhaps he ought to relinquish the position, and give it over to someone else with a little bit more fire in the belly.
This story on senate oversight committee lies fallow is the worst type of political hype. There is no evidence to the generalities provided as “Global Warming”. Global warming is based entirely on a Karl Marx theory called metabolic rift, its actually called biospheric rift. Its a cheep shot at capitalism, using subject matter which can not be proven or dis proven as it seeks its proof in minute measures of which historically, there were no discriminating instruments capable of the measurement. Further it attempts to use a small measure of time (less that 20 years) to infer a linear value over many thousands of years. There is just no historical evidence which supports this use of Karl Marx theory as being anywhere near accurate. Additionally Karl Marx’s theory of metabolic rift has proven over time (as many of his theories) to be incorrect. The soil was not transported out of England as he surmised and they are still growing crops there as they have been for may thousands of years. To pull this together, its quite possible Senator Sheldon is aware of this and has decided to take no action where none is needed. He most likely understands that reaction to these issues is reaction to media hype and not fact.
Bob, “cheep shot” indeed. Global warming is not based entirely upon Karl Marx’s theory of metabolic rift. It is mostly based upon measurements using instruments experts call “thermometers”. They measure temperature. Have you heard of them? The measurements that theories of global warming are based upon have not just taken place over the last 20 years, but for generations.
Karl Marx sure knew a lot about greenhouse gases and the albedo effect, huh?