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A group of environmental activists attended a meeting of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Power on Wednesday. Nothing strange about that – except for, of course, the tin hats they were wearing.
Hey, @RepFredUpton – these folks at the hearing have your hat for you when you are done. #ActOnClimate #Denierpalooza pic.twitter.com/9s0k7b0Hat
— Sierra Club Live (@SierraClubLive) September 18, 2013
According to a Twitter exchange, the hat owners are part of a group called Polluter Watch – an organization which, according to its Twitter page, “holds corporate polluters, their influence peddlers and DC front groups accountable for endangering America’s clean energy future.”
Thanks @EnviroAction & @SierraClubLive for Tweeting our tin foil hats at #Climate #Denierpalooza today! Keep holding their feet to the fire!
— Polluter Watch (@PolluterWatch) September 18, 2013
Fred Upton is a republican, Michigan congressman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce commitee and sworn enemy of environmentalists.
Wednesday’s meeting, titled “The Obama Administration’s Climate Change Policies and Activities” but dubbed “Climate Denierpalooza” by Polluter Watch, examined “the details of the president’s Climate Action Plan and the full scope of federal climate change-related activities and their impacts on the economy and the environment,” the Subcomittee noted in a press release.
The groups claim that the Federal government has spent about $77 billion on climate change-related research over the past five years.
The hearing comes in anticipation of an expected EPA announcement in which the Agency will likely release a proposed rule setting greenhouse gas emissions standards for new power plants. President Obama also recently announced his climate change agenda which has the Subcommittee concerned over the implications for the coal industry.
Meanwhile, Sierra Club Live estimates that climate change-induced extreme weather cost Americans $140 billion last year.
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Get up to date people, we don’t have to love this planet with fear like neocons:
*Occupywallstreet now does not even mention CO2 in its list of demands because of the bank-funded and corporate run carbon trading stock markets ruled by politicians.
*Science has never agreed it WILL be a crisis, only could be a crisis and it’s been almost three decades.
*Not one single IPCC warning has ever said any crisis WILL happen, only 28 years of “maybe” a crisis. Prove me wrong.
*Canada killed Y2Kyoto with a freely elected climate change denying prime minister and nobody cared, especially the millions of scientists warning us of unstoppable warming (a comet hit).
*Julian Assange is of course a climate change denier.
*Obama had not mentioned the crisis in two State of the Unions addresses.
Definition of a Fear Monger; Anyone saying a CO2 crisis will happen when science has NEVER agreed it WILL happen, they only agreed it could and might and possibly and……………………….for 28 years. Who’s the neocon here again?
I can recognize metals.
Aluminum foil hats, not tin. Helps prevent alien signals from penetrating the brain.