5 Past Yrs. 5 Warmest Ever; 2 House Committees Have 1st Climate Hearings In 6, 8 Yrs, Respectively
And on the very same day. How . . . appropriate.
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In two separate and simultaneous House committee hearings on global warming, lawmakers testified that climate change is real, happening now and requires urgent action. It was the first hearing the Energy and Commerce Committee had held on global warming in six years; for the Natural Resources Committee it was the first in more than eight years. In both cases, the rooms were packed with spectators. “It’s a breath of fresh air,” said Representative Joe Neguse, Democrat of Colorado, who called climate change “the defining issue of our time.”
Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat, and Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, urged Congress to rein in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change, they said, has already hurt apple growers, farmers and military installations in North Carolina and commercial fisheries, maple syrup producers and ski resorts in the Northeast.
“If you have farmers or fishermen or resort operators or foresters in your communities or your districts, I promise you they are worrying about climate change all the time,” Governor Baker said.
Republicans, for the most part, avoided questioning the established science of climate change, focusing primarily on criticizing economic policies put forward by Democrats, like the so-called Green New Deal legislation that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is set to introduce this week. Some others sought to position themselves as bipartisan on the issue.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/climate/congress-climate-hearings.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
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When the GOP is in control this is what happens...
