NEW REPUB LEADERS SHUT HOUSE CLIMATE CMTE

In Memoriam: House climate committee
Robin Bravender, December 1, 2010 (Politico)

"…Created in 2007 by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to draw attention to the causes and effects of climate change, the [House Select Committee on Global Warming] didn’t have much of a chance to survive the upcoming Republican takeover…"

[Michael Steel, spokesman for incoming Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio):] "We have pledged to save taxpayers' money by reducing waste and duplication in Congress…The Select Committee on Global Warming – which was created to provide a political forum to promote Washington Democrats' job-killing national energy tax – was a clear example, and it will not continue in the 112th Congress."

Markey On New Energy

Chair of the Select Committtee Ed Markey (D-Mass) perpetrating his "job-killing" propaganda. From energyaction via YouTube.

"With the end in sight, Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) organized what was billed as an 'all-star' cast of witnesses to testify Wednesday on the dangers posed by climate change. And like the Democrats’ hopes for a bill limiting carbon dioxide emissions, things didn’t turn out exactly as planned…Former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark didn’t show and environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was delayed by several hours.

"Reporters covering the hearing were sparse and most of the rank-and-file lawmakers who appeared declined to give opening statements. Markey was the only committee member who returned in the afternoon to hear Kennedy’s testimony calling for domestic innovation on “clean energy” technologies."

China, Climate Change And What’s Coming

U.S. climate change negotiator Todd Stern testifying to the Select Committee and saying things the New Republican majority doesn't want to hear. From RepMarkey via YouTube

"Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the committee’s top Republican and a vocal climate skeptic, had lobbied GOP leadership to keep the panel alive to probe the Obama administration’s global warming policies, but he’s expected to be offered a lead role in investigating climate science on the Science Committee…Many of Sensenbrenner’s fellow Republicans were happy to see the committee scrapped…[C]ommittee member Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), told POLITICO…the panel has offered a useful platform for climate skeptics…

"Markey and other Democrats vowed to continue their fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the minority over the next two years…Since the panel’s inception, Democrats have held more than 75 hearings focusing on the impacts of global warming, ending U.S. reliance on foreign oil, and “clean energy” job creation…The committee served as a political platform for Democrats as they worked to pass sweeping energy and climate legislation through the House last year…"