McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/14/2006 | Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming Posted on Tue, Nov. 14, 2006 Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers Chuck Kennedy, MCT U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is shown in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. ...
11-14-2006, 09:32 PM
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| Senator Boxer unleashed on the Environment: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/14/2006 | Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming Posted on Tue, Nov. 14, 2006 Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers  Chuck Kennedy, MCT U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is shown in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON - Automakers and manufacturers, beware: There's a new environmental policy boss in town, she scowls a lot, and two of her favorite phrases are "global warming" and "extensive hearings." The Democrats' coming takeover of Congress is expected to feel pressure for policy change on a number of fronts, from Iraq to taxes, but the starkest change may come at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, when Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., will surrender the gavel to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Her appointment was announced Tuesday, but won't take effect until January. Inhofe rejects a wide scientific consensus that human use of fossil fuels is largely responsible for catastrophic climate change, calling it "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He's accused environmental activists of exploiting people's fears to raise money. And he's blocked legislation aimed at curbing global warming. Boxer, in contrast, is a fiercely liberal environmental activist. She has railed against Inhofe, crusaded for cleaner drinking water and led wilderness protection efforts in her home state and for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Her likely counterparts in the House of Representatives - Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., of the Resources Committee - are less sympathetic to environmentalists. Dingell's constituents include the auto industry, and Rahall's include the coal industry. Then too, of course, George W. Bush remains president, and he's not exactly a global-warming crusader, either. But Boxer said Tuesday that starting in January, her priority will be to begin "a very long process of extensive hearings" on global warming. "I think there ought to be a global-warming bill that looks at all the contributors to carbon-dioxide emissions," she said. She cited California's legislation requiring automakers to reduce emissions as "an excellent role model." Boxer also wants to boost the cleanup of Superfund toxic-waste sites by reinstating "polluter pays" fines, which lapsed under the Bush administration, and increase oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency. __________________________________________________ _______________ So write her to clean up Hollywood!  Study: Television, Filmmaking Industries Are Big Polluters - TechNow - NBC11.com | KNTV Study: Television, Filmmaking Industries Are Big Polluters POSTED: 1:10 pm PST November 14, 2006 UPDATED: 1:34 pm PST November 14, 2006 LOS ANGELES -- Special effects explosions, idling vehicles, teams of workers building monumental sets -- all of it contributes to Hollywood's newly discovered role as an air polluter, a university study has found. The film and television industry and associated activities make a larger contribution to air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than almost all five other sectors researched, according to a two-year study released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles. Although Hollywood seems environmentally conscious thanks to celebrities who lend their names to various causes, the industry created more pollution than individually produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semiconductor manufacturing, the study found. Only petroleum manufacturing belched more emissions. "People talk of 'the industry,' but we don't think of them as an industry," said Mary Nichols, who heads the school's Institute of the Environment, which released what researchers called a "snapshot" of industry pollution. "We think of the creative side, the movie, the people, the actors. We don't think of what it takes to produce the product." Researchers considered the emissions created directly and indirectly by the film and television industry. For example, they factored in both the pollution caused by a diesel generator used to power a movie set, as well as the emissions created by a power plant that provides electricity to a studio lot.   
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11-14-2006, 09:41 PM
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| Excellent, we're going to spend dollars and days on something that isn't even known to be truth. This is about as useful as a hole in my head. | ||||
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11-14-2006, 09:57 PM
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11-14-2006, 10:40 PM
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| Not surprising, she's a raging liberal and like many in washington prefers to make rash decisions based on partial facts and refuses to look at the big picture. She'll preach that we need to rid ourselves of foreign oil but wont do a damn thing about it. She'll bitch and moan about Oil and Natural Gas prices and we're sitting a shit ton of NG and yet we can't get it...why? Politicians like her block millions upon millions of acres for exploration, areas that are known to be rich in natural resources. She's a joke as is her reckless environmental policy. | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:10 PM
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| She is also a total phoney like many liberals in the Democrat party. She was just a bit concerned over her Senate Seat in 2004 so she played the moderate on every issue and kept as quiet in the media as possible for many months up to the election. Then once re-elected she suddenly became one of the most vocal Bush bashers in the congress running for a camera and a hearing at very chance she could get!  | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:12 PM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim The sad part in this is an important commitee assignment that needs bi-partisanship and reasonable discussion. But you can bet it will be all politics from here on out!
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11-14-2006, 11:16 PM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Most climate scientists seem to thing there is a problem. Nothing useful will come of it as the change required to be effective will be too great
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11-14-2006, 11:25 PM
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| Originally Posted by RMNIXON oh yeah, how many environmental scientists are senators again?
what the committee needs is overwhelming science that makes the GOP give in or look like total shrills for the fossil fuel industries a GOP senator believes global warming is "a big hoax", now thats bipartisan... you're not going to get reasonableness out of people like that | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:30 PM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim And you're doing the same thing but for the left!
What a surprise a liberal democrat wants to scare the shit out of everyone! Neither side is looking at all the evidence I think thats pretty clear. | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:34 PM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim
None at last count as far as I know? So why does the left treat former Senator Gore like he is one? I don't know anyone on the right in politics that gets that kind of worship for political based views on a science issue! Do you? | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:36 PM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim Better to be a "shrill" for the anti-capitalist left hiding behind their "Earth Day" scare tactics? As I said, a reasonable discussion should take place from both sides, but it wont!
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11-14-2006, 11:38 PM
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| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 I think it is pretty clear that one side is looking at all the evidence, thats why conservative and moderate Republicans are switching over to the "liberal" position (I guess liberal here means scientific consensus)
This would be mildly interesting except it is playing out exactly like the ozone debate did...eventually scientists got tired of all the conservative politicians who sold their souls to corporations and had international meetings that made them look like idiots and then they gave in and saved the world Go back and read all the conservative books (one example: "see I told you so" by Rush Limbaugh) from the early 90s, they all talk about ozone being a big hoax, and they have scientists to back up their positions too! They were COMPLETELY wrong and they'll never admit it...to this day the easiest way to get a conservative to shut up or change topics is to bring up the ozone layer, because they have absolutely nothing to say except "you were right i was wrong" and they won't say that...so you get to watch in amazement as they struggle to switch topics...its actually kinda funny sometimes...yet sad  | ||||
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11-14-2006, 11:47 PM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim The scientific consensus is that the earth is warming and that there is no way to quantify how much we as human beings are affecting it.
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11-15-2006, 12:00 AM
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| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95 really i must have missed that report?
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11-15-2006, 12:30 AM
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| Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95
 enviornmental activists cant have it every way. cant complain about rising gas prices, yet block oil drilling, then comaplin about the economy, but enact command and control regulations | ||||
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11-15-2006, 12:37 AM
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| Never, never, never give up  Conservative Party High Point, NC
| And Mars is coming out of a ice age at this very moment. Coincidence? Or are Martians driving too many SUV's? SPACE.com -- Mars Emerging from Ice Age, Data Suggest | ||||
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11-15-2006, 01:05 AM
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| I love it when top Fortune companies (best place to work, and has over a billion in revenue every year) CEOs take the lead in becoming carbon neutral Partnership for Public Service - Board of Governors  So the free market, scientific community, and an evergrowing plurality of the american people are banding together to fight global warming... so who is left...partisan hacks? What sucks about this is...when it becomes accepted by 90% of americans that liberals were right yet again, its going to instantly be dropped as an issue and everyone is going to pretend that they were always for carbon neutral programs | ||||
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11-15-2006, 01:12 AM
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| Originally Posted by Thorgrim Say what?
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11-15-2006, 01:15 AM
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| He was just on TV talking about how Timberland is carbon neutral and every company should be Timberland Doesn't say it specifically but I am sure he wasn't lying on television...their goal is to be completely carbon neurtal by 2010 | ||||
