McKinley would bar Energy Department from considering climate change

[theHandpuppet]

Just astounding. How the hell did this manage to fly under the radar? Notice these types of reports always end up in Friday's news?

Sunday, July 13, 2014
McKinley would bar Energy Department from considering climate change
By David Gutman, Staff writer

The U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers could not carry out policies related to climate change and climate science under an amendment proposed by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., and passed Thursday night by the U.S. House of Representatives.

McKinley’s amendment, which passed with almost exclusively Republican votes, would prohibit the two agencies from using funds “to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.

”Those “specified assessments” include the two most comprehensive reports on climate change, the U.S. government’s National Climate Assessment, five years in the making, and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The amendment would prohibit the agencies from participating in future versions of those reports and also prohibit them from acting on any of the recommendations contained in those reports.

- See more at: http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140713/GZ01/140719792/1419#sthash.c6jj8Alz.dpuf

[rock]

1. Why not bar the Energy Department from using the truth

you know, like the Republic Party.

[CanonRay]

2. Legislate out of existence scientific facts.

Yeah, that'll work.

[theHandpuppet]

5. That seems to be the strategy

Rather like the fundie strategy for birth control -- deny people sex ed and contraception and -- Wa-La! --there will be no more unplanned pregnancies!

Yeah, that'll work.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Nothing is sacred to these clowns.

But the almighty ...money they'll line their coffins with as they ruin the earth for their own children.

[theHandpuppet]

4. It's all lies, compounded by more lies and more lies

The deck is stacked against the people... stacked with money.

[defacto7]

6. Now to the Senate....

won't fly.

White house?

veto.

I think the only info we need on this is which Democrats voted in favor. We know what to do from there.