Since the Democrats’ Green New Deal calls for phasing out air travel, Rep. Liz Cheney asked a panel of so-called environmental experts how to prioritize who in the future gets to fly and for what reasons.
NOTE: IF fossel fuels are eliminated, what happens to our Air Force?
During a House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hearing on Feb. 12 titled “Climate Change: Preparing for Energy Transition”, the Wyoming Republican also asked the six witnesses how each of them made their way to the nation’s capital.
Four of the six stated they had traveled by airplane, the very means of transportation the Green New Deal seeks to eliminate.
The Green New Deal calls to “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary,” according to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s website.
On the question of who gets to fly, Chandra Farley, director of Just Energy, answered: “It would depend on the FAA and the other federal agencies that focus on air travel to tackle that question.”
Cheney replied: “I would assume we’re going to set up a situation where the FAA can tell individual citizens which of their air travel is worthy and important and what isn’t. It would seem to me we would then have a situation where the FAA could say for example, you know what, vacation travel, that’s not essential. We have to make sure that we can do the air travel for the people that really need it, so no vacation travel.”
NOTE: This would destroy the tourist industry. No flying to Aspen for a weekend of skiing nor to Florida in winter for a 3-4 day getaway!
When none of the witnesses chose to chime in on whether the Green New Deal would require the government to set up a “vacation commissar,” Cheney asked who among the six on the panel backs Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal.
After a moment of silence, one of the panelists said she supports many of the recommendations outlined in the proposal.
Cheney said: “I would just say that it’s going to be crucially important for us to recognize and understand when we outlaw plane travel, we outlaw gasoline, we outlaw cars.
I think actually probably the entire U.S. military, because of the Green New Deal, that we are able to explain to our constituents and to people all across this country what that really means. Even when it comes down to something like air travel … that means the government is going to be telling people where they can fly to and where they can’t.”
“I would assume that means our colleagues from California are going to be riding their bicycles back home to their constituents,” Cheney added.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Feb. 12 said that he will move for a vote on the Green New Deal, which many observers see as designed to force Senate Democrats – including several 2020 presidential candidates – to go on the record on a proposal that has been widely ridiculed.
The vote will “give everybody an opportunity to go on record,” McConnell said.
Sen. Ed Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, who introduced the Green New Deal with Ocasio-Cortez last week, slammed McConnell for “rushing” to get a vote on the proposal.
Markey tweeted: “This isn’t a new Republican trick. By rushing a vote on the #GreenNewDeal resolution, Republicans want to avoid a true national debate & kill our efforts to organize. We’re having the first national conversation on climate change in a decade. We can’t let Republicans sabotage it.”
Markey added: “Don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you: this is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building. He wants to silence your voice so Republicans don’t have to explain why they are climate change deniers. McConnell wants this to be the end, this is just the beginning.”
Many on social media wondered why Markey would oppose a vote on his own resolution and how voting on a plan he proposed could be considered “sabotage.”
Others wondered how it was possible to “rush” a vote on the Green New Deal since Ocasio-Cortez herself warned that unchecked climate change will lead to the end of the world in 12 years.
Trump blasted the Green New Deal at a rally on Feb. 11 in El Paso, Texas, saying it would “shut down American energy.” It sounds like “a high-school term paper that got a low mark,” the president said.
In one other bit of environmental news, a study that claims climate change is wiping out the world’s insect population has been debunked.
The study by Brad Lister and Andres Garcia published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) told a very concerning story about a precipitous decline in the number of insects in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest, and that climate change was to blame.
The leftist media immediately latched on, with such headlines as:
“‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss”, – The Washington Post.
“Insects, biodiversity, and mass extinction: an alarming new study”, – Vox.
“Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ ”, – The Guardian.
Not mentioned, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has sent a formal complaint to its publishers calling for the study’s withdrawal.
Why? The study blamed the drop in the insect population on dramatic rising temperatures that were recorded by a weather station. But the temperature increase was the result of a thermometer in the weather station being moved, not global warming.
https://www.worldtribune.com/green-fail-trump...peed-rail/
NOTE: IF fossel fuels are eliminated, what happens to our Air Force?
During a House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hearing on Feb. 12 titled “Climate Change: Preparing for Energy Transition”, the Wyoming Republican also asked the six witnesses how each of them made their way to the nation’s capital.
Four of the six stated they had traveled by airplane, the very means of transportation the Green New Deal seeks to eliminate.
The Green New Deal calls to “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary,” according to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s website.
On the question of who gets to fly, Chandra Farley, director of Just Energy, answered: “It would depend on the FAA and the other federal agencies that focus on air travel to tackle that question.”
Cheney replied: “I would assume we’re going to set up a situation where the FAA can tell individual citizens which of their air travel is worthy and important and what isn’t. It would seem to me we would then have a situation where the FAA could say for example, you know what, vacation travel, that’s not essential. We have to make sure that we can do the air travel for the people that really need it, so no vacation travel.”
NOTE: This would destroy the tourist industry. No flying to Aspen for a weekend of skiing nor to Florida in winter for a 3-4 day getaway!
When none of the witnesses chose to chime in on whether the Green New Deal would require the government to set up a “vacation commissar,” Cheney asked who among the six on the panel backs Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal.
After a moment of silence, one of the panelists said she supports many of the recommendations outlined in the proposal.
Cheney said: “I would just say that it’s going to be crucially important for us to recognize and understand when we outlaw plane travel, we outlaw gasoline, we outlaw cars.
I think actually probably the entire U.S. military, because of the Green New Deal, that we are able to explain to our constituents and to people all across this country what that really means. Even when it comes down to something like air travel … that means the government is going to be telling people where they can fly to and where they can’t.”
“I would assume that means our colleagues from California are going to be riding their bicycles back home to their constituents,” Cheney added.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Feb. 12 said that he will move for a vote on the Green New Deal, which many observers see as designed to force Senate Democrats – including several 2020 presidential candidates – to go on the record on a proposal that has been widely ridiculed.
The vote will “give everybody an opportunity to go on record,” McConnell said.
Sen. Ed Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, who introduced the Green New Deal with Ocasio-Cortez last week, slammed McConnell for “rushing” to get a vote on the proposal.
Markey tweeted: “This isn’t a new Republican trick. By rushing a vote on the #GreenNewDeal resolution, Republicans want to avoid a true national debate & kill our efforts to organize. We’re having the first national conversation on climate change in a decade. We can’t let Republicans sabotage it.”
Markey added: “Don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you: this is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building. He wants to silence your voice so Republicans don’t have to explain why they are climate change deniers. McConnell wants this to be the end, this is just the beginning.”
Many on social media wondered why Markey would oppose a vote on his own resolution and how voting on a plan he proposed could be considered “sabotage.”
Others wondered how it was possible to “rush” a vote on the Green New Deal since Ocasio-Cortez herself warned that unchecked climate change will lead to the end of the world in 12 years.
Trump blasted the Green New Deal at a rally on Feb. 11 in El Paso, Texas, saying it would “shut down American energy.” It sounds like “a high-school term paper that got a low mark,” the president said.
In one other bit of environmental news, a study that claims climate change is wiping out the world’s insect population has been debunked.
The study by Brad Lister and Andres Garcia published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) told a very concerning story about a precipitous decline in the number of insects in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest, and that climate change was to blame.
The leftist media immediately latched on, with such headlines as:
“‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss”, – The Washington Post.
“Insects, biodiversity, and mass extinction: an alarming new study”, – Vox.
“Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ ”, – The Guardian.
Not mentioned, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has sent a formal complaint to its publishers calling for the study’s withdrawal.
Why? The study blamed the drop in the insect population on dramatic rising temperatures that were recorded by a weather station. But the temperature increase was the result of a thermometer in the weather station being moved, not global warming.
https://www.worldtribune.com/green-fail-trump...peed-rail/
