Strangely, none of them are demanding to vote on AOC’s Green New Deal, nor giving up their own giant carbon footprints
House Freshman Democrats Urge Funds for Climate Change Programs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is the lead sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution in the House of Representatives, isn’t the only freshman Democratic member of Congress pushing for action on climate change.
More than half of the freshman Democrats in Congress have signed onto a 24 April letter urging the House Committee on Appropriations “to provide robust funding for our nation’s climate change research programs†in fiscal year (FY) 2020 appropriations bills. The letter, dated 16 April, was released on 24 April, after members of Congress signed onto it.
The Trump administration’s FY 2020 budget request“recommends across the board cuts to climate science,†states the letter that was signed by 35 of the 64 newly elected House Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez. Among those cuts, the letter highlights the administration’s plans to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Global Climate Change Research Office, decrease the National Science Foundation’s budget by 12%, and slash funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research by 41%.
“Without strong funding for climate science programs such as these, we will not be equipped to address the greatest challenge facing our nation today,†according to the letter.
The letter calls for significant funding for climate research at those agencies and others, including NASA, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Basically, this is all about being mad at Orange Man for daring to cut money to programs not based on science. And attempting to spread some taxpayer loot to people who vote Democrat. Part of the letter reads “We have an opportunity and a moral obligation to act on climate.” Yet, these same climaloonies fail to reduce their own carbon footprints. Most of the energy for the House and the office buildings comes from a coal fired plant. When will they demand it be replaced, or at least operate without lights and heat/AC in the House chamber and the offices?
Oh, and the above photo comes from the article. If you hover your mouse over it at the link, the subtext is “fossil fuel processing plants spewing carbon pollution into the atmosphere.” First, CO2 is not a pollutant, but, most of you know that already. Further, what you see is primarily steam, ie, water vapor. Also not a pollutant. But, Warmists are dishonest. We all know that.
