Harry Reid: Kochs Are 'Main Cause' Of Climate Change

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR – MAY 7, 2014, 11:18 AM EDT

On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) yet again went off on the Koch brothers, this time blaming them for climate change.

"While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing to climate change. That's what they do very well. They are one of the main causes of this. Not a cause -- the main cause," Reid said on the Senate floor.

"The University of Massachusetts, Amherst ... ranked Koch Industries as one of the nation's biggest air and water polluters, period," he said, adding: "They are the champions."

In August 2013, the university's Political Economy Research Institute listed Koch Industries as one of the largest polluters, behind publicly traded corporations like ExxonMobil and Dow Chemicals, among others.

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For what it's worth, my youngest son is graduating from UMass Amherst this Saturday with a degree in Political Science. His Dad has the same degree but from UMass Boston.

[onehandle]

1. Emperor Onehandle would ship the Kochs off to the Hague.

They are mass murderers.

[randys1]

2. They are guilty of at least attempted murder of 2 billion people

Harry is getting my respect lately.

The Koch Bros are some of the worst people alive, and YET

tens of millions

let me say that again

TENS OF MILLIONS of LOWER middle class/middle class Americans WORSHIP them and if they dont know who they are they would worship them and would NEVER question anything they do

i.e. those people have broken brains...are in dire need of Obamacare for psychological and physiological disorders

I WISH i was exaggerating

[ladjf]

10. They are definitely traitors. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. At a time that we should stop playing politics.

Sorry, reading the actual report, and while the Koch fight it due to how regulations will clearly affect their business model, we really should do science here and stops the politics.

Just my humble opinion, and to pre-empt the obvious charges, no, I am not a fan of their products and actively boycott them.

[Skidmore]

9. We must do both because

ultimately politics will decide how the knowledge from science is actualized through policy. The Koch brothers are using the political process to block the science. It seems to me that our side needs to push back with facts and alternative policies directed at circumventing or shutting down the Koch agenda.

[liberal N proud]

4. The Koch's want to pollute without impunity

And they cannot monopolize green technologies.

[hughee99]

5. So even the study Reid cited says they're not the MAIN cause

of global warming. Nice work Harry!

[malaise]

6. I'm loving Harry Reid more by the day

Knock them out Harry!!

[DirkGently]

7. Well this ought to irritate them.

Kochs do NOT like people talking about what Kochs are doing.

[Stainless]

8. The Koch Bros. Are The Very Definition Of Evil

Look it up - "Causing harm or injury, morally reprehensible".
People who support the Koch Bros. are truly ignorant and pitiful because they too are harmed by the pollution spewed by Koch Industries. The Kochs' and their supporters/enablers are guilty of criminal conspiracy.

[Cha]

11. Thank you, Harry Reid!

"The University of Massachusetts, Amherst ... ranked Koch Industries as one of the nation's biggest air and water polluters, period," he said, adding: "They are the champions."

Congratulations to your son, DonViejo! It's Worth A Lot! How excited are you all?!