Citizen Power

Former skeptics in Congress are realizing that climate change has to be dealt with and some of them are ready for action!

Representative Bob Inglis (R-SC) recently went to Antarctica with a small Congressional delegation. Scientists that work there showed him ice cores, and those ice core samples clearly showed the high spike in CO2 levels that are now warming the Earth. Inglis was a former skeptic, but he is now convinced: “The evidence is compelling: Global Warming is a real, human-caused problem,” he said .

What a difference that is from the Michele Bachmann (R-MN)  approach. She gets her talking points from the GOP, and repeats her claim that global warming is not happening without exploring any of the science or visiting Antarctica or even Greenland.  I applaud Congressman Inglis for taking the steps to gather the information he needed to determine that global warming is real, even though his Republican party doesn’t want to admit it.

Bachmann, who is my Congresswoman, gave a “climate change” forum today in my city and not only refused to take questions, she had a lawyer from the right-wing think tank - CEI - give us propaganda on global warming.  He doesn’t believe in it, so he made up all kinds of fairy tales about Ice Ages and how the sun is causing global warming, and how much of this is also to blame on methane from cows and CO2 from the ocean. (The ocean is actually a carbon sink, it’s not causing global warming as he claimed).   It was all propaganda to further the CEI and GOP agenda of no new taxes.   He even denied that the climate is getting warmer at all.  In reality, from January 2008 to January 2009, the planet warmed a remarkable 0.37°C (see data here).   (That’s a lot.)

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