{"id":2517,"date":"2009-02-04T18:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/boxers-greenbat-agenda-and-inhofes-reaction\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T02:39:14","slug":"boxers-greenbat-agenda-and-inhofes-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/boxers-greenbat-agenda-and-inhofes-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer&#8217;s Greenbat Agenda and Inhofe&#8217;s Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='right'><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Chair is Democratic California Senator Barbara Boxer; the ranking committee member is Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Recently, Boxer put forth a list of &#8220;principles&#8221; to address &#8220;Global Warming.&#8221; Inhofe, as usual, answered Boxer&#8217;s crazy shopping list with some sensible remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Typical of the contents of the Democratic Platform, Boxer and her committee Democrats put forth the following rambling, nebulous list of &#8216;principles:&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul style='font-size: 1.1em'>\n<li>To reduce emissions &#8220;to levels <strong>guided by science<\/strong> to avoid dangerous global warming&#8221; and to set targets that are &#8220;certain and enforceable,&#8221; as well as adjustable.<\/li>\n<li>To maintain state and local anti-warming efforts.<\/li>\n<li>To utilize a market-based system \u2014 that means <strong>cap-and-trade<\/strong>, as opposed to a carbon tax, which some economists favor to reduce emissions.<\/li>\n<li>To use proceeds from the <strong>sales of emissions permits<\/strong> for a variety of uses, including: support for consumers, governments, businesses and workers (presumably to help offset higher energy prices under the system); investments in alternative energy; preserving wildlife and ecosystems threatened by warming; and <strong>money for developing nations to help them respond to warming<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure a &#8220;level global playing field &#8230; so that <strong>countries contribute their fair share<\/strong> to the international effort to combat global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Inhofe responded with frankness and reality, in stark contrast to the vague list above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At a time when Congress is debating a near-term multi-billion-dollar bailout for the American economy, once again the <strong>Democrats are proposing principles for climate legislation that will impose a long-term multi-trillion-dollar energy tax on families and workers<\/strong>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As demonstrated last year, when it comes to drafting comprehensive climate legislation, the devil is in the details. <strong>These principles offer nothing more than a punt on all of the difficult issues<\/strong> that Americans expect to be honestly debated. Congressional cap-and-trade bills, often touted as an &#8216;insurance policy&#8217; against global warming, would instead be nothing more than all economic pain for no climate gain. We look forward to debating these tough issues in the Committee this year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The emphasis above is mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Chair is Democratic California Senator Barbara Boxer; the ranking committee member is Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Recently,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-greenbats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}