We have looked at corporate gaslighting on energy three times now, and Republican politicians once. (Links below) Now it is time for Republican FUD again. Rep. Garret Graves and Rep. Greg Walden are leading in talking around the issues.
House Republicans are making progress on their development of a political strategy to address climate change.
Among those presenting at the meeting [described below] were Garret Graves of Louisiana, the top Republican on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Climate Crisis Committee, and Greg Walden of Oregon, the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Washington Examiner: Daily on Energy: House GOP meets to discuss climate agenda ‘counter-narrative’
Right. PR, not action.
Two-thirds of Americans don't think the Administration is doing enough on climate, according to Pew Research Center polling. Results indicate a generational divide, with 52 percent of 18 to 38-year-old Republicans dissatisfied with government climate action, compared with 41 percent of those aged 38-54, and 31 percent of those aged 55 or above.
Related, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has started meeting with other key Republican lawmakers on a package of climate bills. "It's really just setting the foundation to counter people who say, 'Republicans are bad on climate,'" a GOP House source reported to Washington Examiner's Josh Siegel. "Well, here's the counter-narrative." Rep. Garret Graves, who serves as the ranking member of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, is preparing a report that will be the basis of a broader strategy.
Daily on Energy: House GOP meets to discuss climate agenda ‘counter-narrative’
House Republicans are making progress on their development of a political strategy to address climate change.
Not a strategy to address it as a real-world problem, only as a matter of politics.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has identified climate change as a vulnerability for members of his caucus competing in swing, suburban districts, especially in terms of appealing to younger voters.
He gave a directive to committees of jurisdiction to identify climate-related policies his members can support.
That they can support without giving up their fealty to oil and gas and nuclear and carbon capture. Even they recognize that coal is dying in the US, with more than half of the coal-fired power plants gone, and multiple massive bankruptcies in coal mining. But they are going to hold on to everything else for absolutely as long as possible.
At the smaller meeting last week, leaders of relevant committees delivered presentations on Republican talking points that will help the conference message a package bills the GOP is aiming to introduce in the coming months — some new, some already introduced.
Ah, yes, talking points. They can't help it, you know.
Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
Official Twitter account for the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
Washington, DC
Under Democratic control, so not taking part in the gaslighting.
You can donate $25 to become a beta tester, or $250 to be drawn as a character in the game (70 places left). The free version for the iPhone has been crowdfunded, and Android is next. I'll keep you posted.
Garret Graves
Rolling Stone: ‘Shameful’ and ‘Cowardly’ — Teenage Climate Activists Shame GOP Rep. for His Excuses
The UN Climate Summit kicks off in New York City next Monday, the Global Climate Strike begins on Friday, and on Wednesday a group of teenage activists were in Washington, D.C., to testify before the House Climate Crisis Committee and a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.
During the hearing, Rep. Garret Graves (R-Louisiana), the ranking Republican on the Climate Crisis Committee, tried to argue the United States shouldn’t focus on the climate crisis because other countries are not taking action to curb their emissions. “So while in the United States we need to continue investing in innovative solutions and exporting clean energy technologies, it makes no sense for us to be doing it if we’re simply watching for increases in China,” he said.
Jamie Margolin, a 17-year-old climate change activist from Seattle, didn’t quite agree with the Republican congressman. She proceeded to dismantle his logic.
Louisiana Rep. Garrett Graves, teen activist Greta Thunberg spar over pollution metaphor; see video
Republicans chose as their spokesman on climate change a gregarious, outdoorsy young man who liked to say that not only was sea-level rise real but that he had measured it with his own yardstick.
Environmentalists regarded this mainly as a stunt. Republicans had correctly interpreted the polling on climate change to mean that they had to change their public image on the issue. But they were not willing to break with the energy industry.
Daily on Energy: Top Climate Committee Republican Garret ...
When Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana was chosen to serve on a new House committee dedicated to climate change, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) supported the pick.
Graves' connection to the fossil fuel industry has drawn scrutiny. Graves has received $515,634 in donations from the oil and gas industry over the past five years, according to campaign finance data compiled by Open Secrets. That amount is easily higher than the other five Republicans on the climate change committee, who have received an average of $108,773 in donations from the industry over the course of their careers.
Other Republicans on the panel don't fair much better [with the League of Conservation Voters]. Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith clocks in with the highest lifetime score of the group at 5 percent. Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter also has a score of 0 percent.
Garret Graves - Wikipedia
Feb 28, 2019 - The Republican delegation will be led by Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, who acknowledges the reality of climate change.
Greg Walden
We have a guy that says "changes have to occur" and we must "do everything we can" on climate change. Sounds pretty good, right?
Well, I've now figured out what's worse than a climate-change denier. It's someone who fully understands the threat that climate change poses to humanity, and blithely refuses to do anything about it.
House.gov: Greg Walden: A path forward on climate change
Feb 20, 2019 - In the coming months, Congress will take up the issue of climate change and how best to adapt America's policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Let me be clear: climate change is real.
Forest management, more hydro, battery storage, more nuclear. One sentence about one wind and solar project.
Audience: I am a student at Mountain View High School and I am concerned about the environment and climate change.
Greg Walden: The good news is that with the positive development of natural gas we've been able to ratchet down our CO2 emissions. We're using less coal power and that's all to improved infrastructure in distribution lines, power lines, if you will, and investments that are coming.
I rest my case.
Links
Renewable Friday: AOC and the Green New Deal
Headline: “Republicans are focused on pragmatic solutions to Climate Change.” The next day Greg Walden, Fred Upton and John Shimkus penned an op-ed [on the Conservative-leaning Real Clear Policy Web site] saying Climate Change is real, and we as Republican leaders are ready to do something about it.
This is the article in question, with its actual deliberately insulting title.
They make me laugh. That's like Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour claiming that it was the White Citizens' Councils who took the lead in the Civil Rights Era.
Renewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting
Renewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting II
COP25
It's definitely worth reading in full.