"The Climate Action Now resolution, sponsored by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), chair of the new House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, would prohibit spending federal money on any action that would advance Trump's plan to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. It also would require Trump to submit a report to Congress within 120 days on how he planned to meet the U.S. obligation under the agreement.
"This is the first time in 10 years that major climate legislation is being heard in the people's house," Castor said, adding that honoring the Paris commitment was an appropriate place to start.
The last climate legislation considered by the House was the cap-and-trade bill that passed largely on party lines in 2009. But Democrats in the Senate, fearing they didn't have the votes to pass that bill, never brought it to a vote. President Barack Obama, left without a legislative linchpin, sought to build a climate legacy out of an array of executive branch actions—policies that Trump has been working to dismantle since taking office.
But amid Trump's aggressive retreat from those climate policies, increasingly dire scientific reports and ever more alarming impacts of global warming, climate change has suddenly become a hot political issue. A CNN pollreleased Tuesday shows that 96 percent of Democrats view "taking aggressive action to slow climate change" as important in their choice of a presidential candidate, a higher percentage than for any other issue—including health care."
metmike: Now the Democrats have created a new house select committee on the made up Climate Crisis(even as the evidence of the current climate optimum mounts).
What can this atmospheric scientist state about the authentic climate science that hasn't been stated before here? OK, I can think of a few more things.
Climate Reality discussions
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27864/
As mentioned several times, the Climate Accord would do nothing to affect climate. It's just a transfer of money from the rich/developed countries to the poor/undeveloped countries under the leadership of the UN as it asserts the principles of global socialism.
Under the Accord, for instance, China continues to massively increase CO2 until the year 2030.
From Watts Up With That:
"Also carefully cloaked from public view by the climate alarmist schemers is the fact that unlike the U.S. the world’s developing nations not only control the globes future growth of both energy use and CO2 emissions but also that future U.S. energy and emissions growth are irrelevant to the future global growth of both these criteria."
No other nation has been able to reduce CO2 emissions as much as the U.S. in the last decade with over 870 million metric tons in lower CO2 emissions achieved through 2017 from peak year 2007 levels with EIA projections of further increasing that to 1 billion metric tons in reductions by 2050.