Markey: Climate Deniers, Saudi Arabia Both on Wrong Side of Global Warming Science
Contact: Chairman Ed Markey, 202-225-4012
Markey: Climate Deniers, Saudi Arabia Both on Wrong Side of Global Warming Science
WASHINGTON (December 3, 2009) – Following news reports that show the chief climate negotiator for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is siding with climate deniers in the wake of hackers stealing emails from British climate scientists, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the House-passed Waxman-Markey legislation and Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, released the following statement:
“Following 8 years when President Bush held hands with Saudi sheiks and climate deniers, we can no longer continue our failed policies of inaction on clean energy and climate change.
“Now it appears that pattern is continuing, where Republicans and backers of the fossil fuel status quo are joining the government of Saudi Arabia in questioning the consensus view that global warming is real and is happening.
“We can no longer allow our energy and climate policy to be dictated by Saudi Arabian oligarchs or Exxon Mobil ‘oil-igarchs.’”
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