{"id":1554,"date":"2009-04-28T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2010-02-25T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:44:01","slug":"climate-change-hearing-on-capitol-hill-highlights-politics-and-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/climate-change-hearing-on-capitol-hill-highlights-politics-and-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change hearing on Capitol Hill highlights politics and hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Vice President Al Gore, right, and former Virginia Sen. John Warner testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 24, 2009, before the House Energy and Environment subcommittee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As legislators in Washington D.C. debated a climate change bill that would levy new taxes on businesses and potentially cost consumers, political theatre was in full view Friday at the House of Representatives.\u00a0 The House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings all last week on the legislation, culminating with the appearance of former Vice President Al Gore and former Speaker of the House and potential 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n

Democrats who support the measure and the \u2018cap and trade tax\u2019 it would bring, brought forth the self-appointed head of the global warming movement Al Gore.\u00a0 Mr. Gore of course was full of his usual dire predictions of the Earth\u2019s pending doom from carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere unless immediate action is taken.\u00a0 He likened those who doubted the theory to those who don\u2019t believe man landed on the moon saying, \u201cThere are people who still believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Mr. Gore wasn\u2019t aware but even some of those that have been to the moon and walked on its surface don\u2019t believe all the hype about global warming.\u00a0 It was just recently that a real moonwalker announced his doubts about the theory as well.\u00a0 Dr. Harrison Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut, moonwalker, and PhD holding geologist said, \u201cContrary to categorical statements by many politicians and unfortunately some scientists, including some colleagues of mine, the science of climate change and its causes is not settled – at least not to this geologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is much more to this story – including battles between the committee and Newt Gingrich when he appeared.\u00a0 Learn more about how politics have taken over the debate on manmade climate change in the full story on Examiner.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
For all the details, read the rest of this story on our Denver Weather Examiner page.<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n\"Examiner.com<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As legislators in Washington D.C. debated a climate change bill that would levy new taxes on businesses and potentially cost consumers, political theatre was in full view Friday at the House of Representatives.\u00a0 The House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings all last week on the legislation, culminating with the appearance of former Vice President … Continue reading Climate change hearing on Capitol Hill highlights politics and hypocrisy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,264,736,131,241,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}