Rebuttal to White House's False Climate Progress Claims
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Markey Leads Members to Floor to Decry Bush “Delay and Distract” Climate Strategy
Releases Rebuttal to White House’s False Climate Progress Claims
WASHINGTON (September 27, 2007) –Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming led members of Congress to the floor today to respond to the Bush administration’s “distract and delay” tactics this week on global warming and call for action to reduce heat-trapping emissions and lead America into a cleaner energy future.
Chairman Markey also released a point-by-point rebuttal to misleading “talking points” proffered by the White House this week on their claims of global warming progress. It includes such claims as money spent to fight drugs in Peru counting as a climate expenditure. This document can be downloaded by visiting the Select Committee’s new website at globalwarming.house.gov. The document is located HERE.
Chairman Markey was joined on the floor by Reps. Hilda Solis (D-CA) and John Hall (D-NY), both members of the Select Committee.
Yesterday the Select Committee hosted members of the climate envoy coming to Washington this week, all of whom agreed a positive path forward involving mandatory limits on global warming pollution is needed to protect the planet.
Below is the full text of Chairman Markey’s speech on the House floor this morning:
“This week, the world convened at the United Nations to combat climate change, but President Bush stayed away.
“While the rest of the world knows that carbon dioxide threatens the planet, this Administration can’t decide if it is a danger to the planet!
“President Bush’s response is not action, but talk.
“Instead of stopping the pollution, he starts a filibuster!
“He has decided to host a conversation to discuss his aspiration for procrastination on global warming until he has left office.
“It is time for America to save the planet from another 50 years of red-white-and blue CO2.
“It is time for America to use its technological genius to launch a new future of clean power, new jobs, and lower costs.
“We have no choice. The ice is melting, the coral is dying, the forests are burning, and 30 percent of all species are in danger of extinction.
“Wake up President Bush. It is time to stop the empty rhetoric and start saving the planet.”
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