This Just In: DC Right-Wing Think Tanks Oppose Even Lamar Alexander's Climate "Plan"

[hatrack]

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“The main purpose of the bill is to use taxpayer money to reward special interests,” says Myron Ebell in an email, characterizing it as a subsidy program for clean technologies. “The only thing it has in common with the Manhattan Project is the name.” Ebell is the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment and served as the head of environmental issues on the Trump transition team in early 2017.

“What makes it less objectionable than the Green New Deal and most of the other bills is that it wastes less money, at least at first,” Ebell said. “But that also makes it more attractive to wooly-minded moderates in Congress who wrongly believe that ‘you can’t beat something with nothing.’ Alexander and other moderates always hope that splitting the difference and spending some money will provide them with political cover.”

Heartland Institute senior fellow H. Sterling Burnett, a conservative environmental policy analyst, had a similar reaction. “I’m not sure President Trump would sign such a proposal,” Burnett said in a phone call. “It is not clear to me that some Republicans would support this bill, saying ‘oh yeah, we’re green too, we have to fight climate change, and this is the right way to do it.'” Burnett additionally characterized Alexander’s proposal as a “Green New Deal-lite,” insinuating that the legislation is just a more workable version the Democrat’s original proposal. “My point of view is that this is just bad policy. I just don’t think that the government should be involved in the energy market,” he said.

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In all fairness, the experts contacted represent organizations that climate change activists have long accused of being “anti-science” and “climate-deniers.” These organizations maintain institutional positions that human-made climate change is not necessarily a threat despite global scientific consensus. It is hard to tell how many Republicans will support the Alexander climate plan. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has announced her support, along with Sens. Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Trump administration officials have expressed only passing interest in the plan.

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Ed. - Susan Collins is "concerned" - yay!! We're saved!!

https://www.insidesources.com/conservative-think-tanks-urge-republicans-to-oppose-alexanders-new-manhattan-project/

[delisen]

1. I wonder what personal plans the deniers are making?

Whether billionaires or think tankers, many of these must personally believe the science despite what they say or write publicly.

I think some must be making personal plans, possibly buying property they think might be least affected when crisis time comes for the many.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Their plans are "be rich; get the government to build a wall against refugees

and make sure Republicans stay in power so they'll benefit the rich".

[delisen]

3. will we be taxed to build seawalls around the

mansions of the super rich?